VMWare data collection issue

PhilB

Hi

 While setting up VMWare data capture from our VCentres we get an error about CPUs. The connections work fine but the following get reported. I expect its a setting on the VCentre itself however i was wondering if you had seen it before and could advise what needs to be changed ?

(from error-vmware.log)

Hosts with the following processor types will be permitted to enter the cluster:
IntelM-BM-. "Sandy Bridge" Generation
IntelM-BM-. "Ivy Bridge" Generation
IntelM-BM-. "Haswell" Generation
Future IntelM-BM-. processors

Compared to the IntelM-BM-. "Westmere" Generation EVC mode, this EVC mode exposes additional CPU features including AVX, XSAVE, and ULE.

Note: Some "Sandy Bridge" microarchitecture processors do not provide the full "Sandy Bridge" feature set. Such processors do not support this EVC mode; they will only be admitted to the IntelM-BM-. "Nehalem" Generation mode or below.

For more information, see Knowledge Base article 1003212

Hosts with the following processor types will be permitted to enter the cluster:
IntelM-BM-. "Ivy Bridge" Generation
IntelM-BM-. "Haswell" Generation
Future IntelM-BM-. processors

Compared to the IntelM-BM-. "Sandy Bridge" Generation EVC mode, this EVC mode exposes additional CPU features including RDRAND, ENFSTRG, FSGSBASE,
SMEP, and F16C.

Note: Some "Ivy Bridge" microarchitecture processors do not provide the full "Ivy Bridge" feature set. Such processors do not support thi
s EVC mode; they will only be admitted to the IntelM-BM-. "Nehalem" Generation mode or below.

For more information, see Knowledge Base article 1003212

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(from load_vmware.log)

vmware timeout : timeout has been set to 3500
Waiting for VMware: 32768224
LPAR2RRD free version 6.00
Vmware    start: SSE_VCentre|xxxx|xxxxx Thu Mar  7 09:30:12 2019
RRDp    version: 1.4008
RRDtool version: 1.4.8
Perl version   : 5.008008
SDK            : SSE_VCentre, vSphere SDK for Perl version-a: 6.7.0
vmware timeout : expired after 3500 seconds : kill -ALRM 32768224
installing WWW : install-html.sh vmware
Host identif   : AIX
timestamp      : Thu Mar  7 09:34:53 GMT 2019
Menu           : no menu refresh for vmware
heatmap        : start Thu Mar  7 09:34:54 2019
heatmap        : (VMware) set cpu utilization for 0 vm
heatmap        : (VMware) set memory utilization for 0 vm
heatmap        : (VMware) set cpu utilization for 0 pools
heatmap        : (VMware) set memory utilization for 0 pools
heatmap        : end Thu Mar  7 09:34:55 2019
CPU cfg VM advs: not this time 7 == 7

The error log contains a load more xml and no data is captured or displayed in the gui

Any assistance is appreciated

Thanks

Phil

Pavel

Hi,

yes, we have seen that already.

are you on AIX right?

1. Follow this, assure you have all prerequisites: http://www.lpar2rrd.com/https.htm

2. remove openssl which came as rrdtool prerequisity (version could be different)

rpm -qa| grep openssl

rpm -e openssl-1.0.2n-1.ppc --nodeps

There will still persist system openss (lslpp -L | grep -i openssl)
This one was just installed as prerequisite for rrdtool.

PhilB

thanks Pavel .. that sorted the issue

Excellent as always