Failed to get card domain - returned error 1

[daryn10]

I installed the VEM on one of my esx servers and for some reason it's not working on this esx box, it works fine on two other servers.

When I do vem status it returns a blank message, doesn't error out, just a blank return.

When I do a vem start I get this error:

Failed to get card domain - returned error 1
Failed to get card domain - returned error 1
Failed to get card domain - returned error 1

I get the same error when I do a vemcmd show vlan or show version.

When I do a vemcmd show card I get this error:

Mon May  3 10:58:06 2010: sf_card_dmp: card API is not working

I've uninstalled the VEM and reinstalled and still get the same thing.

I'm using the latest SV1.3 release; SV1.2 was on this host but was uninstalled before I installed SV1.3, and like I said I did the same thing on my other two

esx hosts and they work fine.

Any ideas?

[lwatta]

It might be a resource issue on the ESX box. Could you reboot the ESX server and see if that allows the VEM module to actually start?

louis

[daryn10]

That worked, thanks.  I hate to have to do a reboot, but it worked.  Does the VEM work off the console memory?  I hadn't bumped mine up to the recommended 800MB so I'm wondering if that might have been a problem.

[lwatta]

Yes I believe we do allocate from the console memory. Most likely there was not enough free memory to allow the VEM modules to start.

Glad you got it working.

louis

[ryan.lambert]

If you wouldn't mind, keep us posted on any funny business you run into with this version of code.

I know there are at least several of us here waiting patiently to deploy this code into production.