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VM generic warning

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I see several "VM generic warning" in my infrastructure.
There are VMs that have no other warnings/errors but this one.
I have read "Alarm Details", but I have no idea what to do on this warning. :?
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Re: VM generic warning

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Dmitry,

This warning is being triggered by a certain event (VmMessageWarningEvent) from vCenter server. Basically this is just a generic event for warning messages from a VM, those events do not fit into any other specific vCenter Server event. So If I were you would also check other alerts for this VM to get more details.

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Re: VM generic warning

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Vitaliy S. wrote:So If I were you would also check other alerts for this VM to get more details.
Thanks.
Vitaliy, I emphasized earlier that "There are VMs that have no other warnings/errors but this one." :)
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And what about other events on this machine?
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Re: VM generic warning

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There is no other alarms/events on both bookmarks "Alarms" and "Events".
I even rebooted the VM in order to see if other events/alarms would appear.
After reboot there is information events only.
Should I ask support?
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Re: VM generic warning

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I'll watch more.
I`ve just rebooted my hosts and restarted all VMs.
I also deleted all alarms in Veeam Monitor.
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I've seen these warnings and errors in my lab, but every time it happened there was a huge list of other events for the VM within both Veeam Monitor and vSphere Client. Please keep us updated on your findings.
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Re: VM generic warning

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BTW, I understood the reason for this warning.
When VM starts there is one and only warning "Insufficient Video RAM" on tab "Events". I believe that this is the reason.
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Makes sense, thank you for the update.
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Re: VM generic warning

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Is it possible to redefine "Insufficient Video RAM" event as "info", not "warning"?
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Dmitry, try creating a custom alarm based on the event type. Just specify "Insufficient Video RAM" on the event substring on the Rules tab.
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[merged]

Hi i was wondering if anyone else had seen the following generic alert?

I am slightly puzzled as i am only seeing this from 2 of my VMs and the build is the same across the board!

What would trigger the VRam to show this alert?


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Re: VM generic warning

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Hi James,

I have performed a quick search and it seems like this problem is a common one and can be observed when the virtual machine's Video RAM configuration is more than what is available to the virtual machine:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micros ... Id=1024990
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micros ... Id=1014593
http://www.peppercrew.nl/index.php/2011 ... l-machine/

You've said that you're using the same build for all your VMs, but could you please tell me if you've also deployed these VM from the same template?

Thanks!
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Re: Vram generic Error

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James@JC wrote:[merged]

Hi i was wondering if anyone else had seen the following generic alert?

I am slightly puzzled as i am only seeing this from 2 of my VMs and the build is the same across the board!

What would trigger the VRam to show this alert?


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The easiest thing to do is use the vSphere Client to change the VM's video card settings to auto-detect. The following screen shot is from a running VM. You have to power it down in order to make the change and select the "auto-detect video settings" radio button on top right
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Personally, I've noticed auto-detect is rarely / never configured, so I assume it is not the VMware default. Not sure.
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Re: VM generic warning

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That was spot on, thanks for the quick response!

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[MERGED] VM Generic Warning

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I am getting "VM Generic Warning on one of my VM's. Where can i find out more about this error cause it doesn't really tell me much of anything.
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Re: VM generic warning

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Hi Matthew and welcome to the forums!
Please review the topic and ask additional questions if you have any.
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