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Upgrade only CPU-microcode VIB

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I've currently got 2 older ESXi hosts that are running VM's and the hosts are patched to ESXi 6.5 EP 09.

 

In a new cluster we have 2 new HCI nodes that I'm wanting to migrate all the running VM's to.  These HCI nodes are patched to ESXi 6.5 U2b as that is the highest version of ESXi that is currently supported (another story for another day).  The problem I am running into is that I can't vmotion the VM's because of com.vmware.vim.vmfeature.cpuid.fcmd which is released in ESXi650-201808402-BG.  This is released with the patch 1 version of ahead of what I'm allowed to go to.

 

With all that said my question is can I install a cpu-microcode VIB without patching to that version of ESXi?  I've tried searching everywhere but can't find any info.  If not I can always cold vmotion the VM's but I'm trying to avoid that.


Cannot recover from upgrade error

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after attempting to upgrade vcenter server 6.5 to 6.7, we received an error.  If we run the setup again, we get a setup interrupted message.  I've looked at the logs and cannot determine what the problem is.  If i try to use the webclient to access the vcenter (since upgrade did not happen) i receive a 500 SSO error Cannot connect to vmware component manager.  We do not use SSO.  Please advise

EBS subscription for approval-com.vmware.cafe.catalog.request.pre not working with defined condition (vRA 7.3)

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I have been experimenting with EBS subscriptions and pre-approval policies and the results are not as expected. Regardless of the condition specified for the EBS subscription the specified workflow is executed. What I was expecting to do was have a subscription condition something like:

 

Run for all events
Run based on conditions
Description Does not equal Foobar

 

... that if the description = "Foobar" (I did this for both the blueprint and machine) then the subscription would skip the specified workflow. For any condition I can think of the workflow executes.

 

(1) Is it possible to conditionally skip a pre-approval subscription workflow?

 

(2) If so, how?

 

(3) If not, does this mean that my workflow will always be executed and therefor the go/no-go logic must be in the workflow?

 

(4) Is this expected behavior?

vCACCAFESubtenantHelper.updateCustomProperty doesn't actually update the custom property on the subtenant

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I have a case where I'm attempting to update the same custom property across several business groups to a new value. However, when I use the vCACCAFESubtenantHelper.updateCustomProperty function, it silently fails to update the subtenant property with the new value. It definitely gets to that call, and my logging statements all look as I'd expect. Here is my code:

 

# The host, productCodePropName, and whatIf variables are static attributes or input parameters

var detectHyphenBetweenCodeAndDescriptionWithWhitespaceRegex = /(?!^\d{4})\s*-\s*/;

 

var subtenants = vCACCAFEEntitiesFinder.getSubtenants( host );

for( var s in subtenants ){

     var subtenant = subtenants[s];

     System.log( "Evaluating ProductCode for " + subtenant.name );

 

     var productCode = null;

     try{

          productCode = vCACCAFESubtenantHelper.getCustomPropertyValue( subtenant, productCodePropName );

     } catch ( e ){

          if( /java\.lang\.NullPointerException/.test( e ) ){

               System.error( productCodePropName + " does not exist for subtenant " + subtenant.name + ", skipping." );

          } else {

               throw e;

          };

     };

 

     if( productCode ){

          System.log( "\tOld ProductCode: " + productCode );

 

          productCode = productCode.replace( detectHyphenBetweenCodeAndDescriptionWithWhitespaceRegex, '-' ).toUpperCase();

          System.log( "\tNew ProductCode: " + productCode );

 

          if( !whatIf ) {

               System.warn( "\tUpdating subtenant to use the new ProductCode" );

 

               var isRuntime = vCACCAFESubtenantHelper.isCustomPropertyPromptUser( subtenant, productCodePropName );

               System.debug( "\t\tisRuntime: " + isRuntime );

               var isEncrypted = vCACCAFESubtenantHelper.isCustomPropertyEncrypted( subtenant, productCodePropName );

               System.debug( "\t\tisEncrypted: " + isEncrypted );

 

               vCACCAFESubtenantHelper.updateCustomProperty( subtenant, productCodePropName, productCodePropName, productCode, isEncrypted, isRuntime );

          };

     };

};

 

When I look at the Inventory tab of vRO and navigate to the business group, the property is not updated (buried in that literal map string). Checking the business group on the vRA side also shows that the custom property on the business groups has not been updated. Am I doing something incorrectly here?

vRealize Business for Cloud 7.4 can't add vCloud Director 9.1

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I've installed vRealize Business for Cloud 7.4 stand alone setup with Identity manager and added my 6.5 vCenter successfully.  I would like to now add the vCloud Director 9.1 instance that is attached to that vCenter but it's not listed under " Manage Private Cloud Connections".  Only vCenter Server is listed.  Is there something else I'm supposed to do to be able to add my vCD server?

Cannot share mounted VMFS_v (External HDD) to network via NFS

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I had Gpt external HDD and file system is "VMFS_v"

Mount as

     #vmfs-fuse /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sp/

 

Share /mnt/sp to network as NFS and it failed

 

How could I achieve this share to network for /mnt/sp ?

VRBC Category Definitions

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Hi Guys,

 

I am currently running VDIM in conjunction with vRealize Business for Cloud 7.5.

 

Im working through pricing currently and would like to know if anyone has found a decent guide to what each of the categories are defined by.

 

Such as Networking Services > MTD Data > Data-in/Data-out

 

Apart from the output being month to date,  Where exactly is data coming in and out of?

 

 

I did find the following in the vRealize Business for Cloud User's Guide, but have not been able to find much more.

 

Note In the Network Traffic (In/Out) section, the aggregated MTD in and out data is shown in MBs. The maximum MTD bandwidth is shown in MBps.

Software iSCSI and Port Binding

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Hello All,

 

I am looking for some additional information about software iSCSI and port binding based on the below articles.

 

VMware Knowledge Base

 

Review Port Binding Details

 

Here is my environment. I have two SANs, a Equallogic and a Nimble. They are both on the same subnet. I have a total of 6 physical adapters that I will bind to VMKernel Ports.

 

My HBA takes a long time to scan, and the question I am left with is, do my issues stem from having 2 VMKernel Ports on 1 virtual switch and the 4 VMKernel Ports on a second vswitch.


Error message: "There was an issue with validating your login credentials against our backend database."

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Hi. I've installed the Skyline Collector in our lab environment, paired it with the cloud service etc. according to the getting started guide at Skyline - Getting Started

 

When trying to access Skyline Advisor Application I'm getting the error message:

 

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There was an issue with validating your login credentials against our backend database.

For Premier Services entitled customers (BCS/MCS/HCS/Telco), please file a Support Request under Product "Skyline Advisor" to get assistance: https://www.vmware.com/group/vmware/get-help/

For Production entitlement support customers, please proceed to the Skyline communities for assistance: https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/skyline

---

 

I haven't migrated anything, just started fresh. How do I resolve this? I'm planning on installing Skyline for my customers, but I don't want it to work this badly for them.

 

Regards,

Anders

Microsoft Outlook on Non-persistent desktops

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I am having trouble getting outlook to work on our non-persistent VDI desktop pools. I have went through the setup for UEM and created a writable volume in App Volumes, after setting up my Outlook profile the OST file is saved to the writable volume and everything appears to be working. But, after logging out of the virtual desktop and logging back in I am forced to go through the process of setting up outlook again.

 

I have been through all the documentation I can find on UEM 9.5 and App Volumes 2.14 with no luck.

RDSH Application - Drive mapping Assistance

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Hello,

 

We are in the process of evaluating RDSH Application pools in View 7.3.1.  We have been able to successfully publish application and launch them from both View Client and HTML.

 

What I am looking for assistance is on, when a user launches the application they currently only see the C drive of the server that is hosting the application.

 

1.  I would like to hide the C drive of the server hosting the RDSH application

 

2.  Users launching the RDSH applications are not getting assigned their network mapped drives.  We have multiple sites and utilize GPO applied at the site level to apply drive mappings based on the users home office.  Since our View environment is hosted at our HQ office, I would like to provide users with the same set of drive mappings they see for their home office when they login.  I was able to add my network drives to my Horizon Client but I was hoping to do something via GPO applied to the OU I have my RDSH servers sitting in.

 

Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

 

Cheers

ESXi - CPU usage низкая, виртуальные машины сильно тормозят

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Есть ESXi 6.0 на несерверном железе - i5, 8gb, SATA. Проблема в том, что, видимо для экономии электричества, хост сильно снижает производительность, гостевые ОС чудовищно виснут. У хоста Summary - Resources - CPU usage показывает 200 мегагерц при Capacity 3092 GHz.

Как исправить?

Error "Failed to lock the file" occured while trying to restore the VMDK file on new virtual machine.

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Hi,

 

I'm trying to migrate my virtual machine present on private cloud environment (Nephoscale) to the local environment.  Since automated disk image exporting feature is not available in their enviornment, we have took the 'dd'/'raw' full byte copy of the instance's disk and converted it into VMDK as mentioned in the steps given in the link

https://jima.cat/convert-raw-dd-image-to-vmdk-vmware/

 

I have then attached this VMDK to my local Virtual Machine vSphere as a "Existing Hard Disk" but when I tried to power on the VM then it is throwing following two errors.

 

a. "Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/53671f4a-5bfc16da-6053-002590e74eac/img/hard_disk.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on."

b. "Failed to lock the file"

 

Can you please help me with the steps to restore this VMDK to my new VM.

 

Also, what is the meaning of above 2 errors and in which case it occurs?

 

Thanks in advance.

Documentation regarding how to control Host resources in 6.7 on standalone install.

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I am new to this community so forgive my naivety.

 

I have used vmware ESXi going all the way back to 3.5.  I typically used the GUI to perform most tasks.  As time went on i started dabbling in more and more of the CLI.

I typically run standalone server install of ESXi.  Currently i have a install of esxi6.7 hp custom standalone on a DL380Gen8, and i use just the web gui to operate it.

Recently my var directory has completely run out of space thus creating a bunch of issues.

I read that you can expand its size to give some breathing room, but i cannot find an easy way of doing it via the CLI.

I also would like to not rebuild the system.

This is not a production system but for home use to learn as i am in the IT industry.

This is kind of an open question-

If you had a standalone install of esxi6.7 and your var partition was completely full , how would you expand it?

 

Just some things i noticed. 

The var partition is quite small from a default install , only 48m.

The hp smx-provider is quite large at 17.3mb by itself.

 

I can include all sorts of log info if you like.

Another thing to note, i tried to remove the smx-provider vib, but it appears i tried a few months ago to install the ghetto vcb vib and it got botched up.  When i do a force remove it states it si missing a tar disk. No such file or directory: '/tardisks/payload1.v00'

I tried to reinstall ghettovcb vib and it failed, i also tried to update it and it stated the payload was different.

VIBs virtuallyGhetto_bootbank_ghettoVCB_1.0.0-0.0.0 and virtuallyGhetto_bootbank_ghettoVCB_1.0.0-0.0.0 have unequal values of the 'payloads' attribute: '[payload1: 19.140 KB]' != '[payload1: 18.987 KB]'

 

Is there a way to forcibly or manually remove a vib that is corrupt?

 

For any that read this thank you, for any that reply thank you even more.

Vmware workstation won't open, get message box “Could not initialize logging”

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I use VMWare workstation on my Windows 7 development machine. The VMs host various versions of SQL server and operating systems for testing. I last used a VM a few days ago. When I tried to open VMWare yesterday I got a message box stating "Could not initialize logging" VMWare does not open so I cant look at properties, settings, etc. Any thoughts on how to repair?
In the log file hostd-1820.log I find the following entry: "2019-01-14T08:55:07.836-08:00 [02776 error 'Default'] An error occurred while loading configuration "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\ft-vmx-version.ini",not all entries are being read. It is strongly encouraged that you manually inspect the file and fix any corruptions." I looked in this directory but can not find the file. Is there a way to recreate it?

Odd increase of two sepearte VM installs

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I'm trying to see what is the main difference between these two VM sizes... Where did the extra space go ? Both are set up relatively the same with one being an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10, then a Refresh PC (Keep Nothing), basically the same as a clean install. The small size VM, is a clean install from ISO image directly, no upgrade, so both results are the same yet there is a noticeable size between them..

 

I kind of put this down to "Reset this PC" <clean drive< must do more than just reformat and re-install,, possibly recovery partition ??

 

Screen Shot 2019-01-15 at 8.27.06 am.png

The 9.23 GB VM is the clean install from ISO image and kept on external drive, where as the 11.04 GB VM is Windows 7 upgraded and refreshed.

 

In  both cases, the "Clean up of disks" under General has been done for each VM and both .vmdk are 60Gig (but are split)

Technical documentation about Veritas Netbackup for VMware

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Hello everyone,,

I want to backup my data on VMware environment using the Veritas Netbackup.

What should i do first? Is there a doc technical or something like that for helping me to understand about this case?

 

Thanks before.

SNMP on VCSA 6.0 (vCenter Server Appliance) not working

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On 2 of my 5 VCSA 6.0 appliances, SNMP polls are not working.  VCSA is 6.0 build 2656761 on all.  The non-working ones are using an external PSC (another VCSA) which appears to be the only difference.  Commands I used...

*Community string replaced for this post

Command> snmp.set --communities myCommunityString

Command> snmp.enable

 

When I use the Windows tool MIB walk with myCommunityString, it fails the test immediately.  It works fine on my other 3 VCSAs.  I have logged into the shell and verified snmpd service is running.

 

Anyone know what is incorrect?

error: VAMI is NOT accessible when upgrade 6.5 to 6.7

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Hi Anyone face this issue when upgrade the VM 6.5 to 6.7

 

2018-05-09T13:16:10.580Z - error: VAMI is NOT accessilbe[1]: https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/, err: Request timed out after 30000 ms, url: https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/

2018-05-09T13:16:40.584Z - error: Request timed out after 30000 ms, url: https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/

2018-05-09T13:16:40.584Z - error: VAMI is NOT accessilbe[2]: https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/, err: Request timed out after 30000 ms, url: https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/

2018-05-09T13:16:55.958Z - error: Could not get response for get request from url https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 10.0.9.67:5480

2018-05-09T13:17:10.587Z - error: Request timed out after 30000 ms, url: https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/

2018-05-09T13:17:10.587Z - error: VAMI is NOT accessilbe[3]: https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/, err: Request timed out after 30000 ms, url: https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/

2018-05-09T13:17:26.028Z - error: Could not get response for get request from url https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 10.0.9.67:5480

2018-05-09T13:17:40.587Z - error: Request timed out after 30000 ms, url: https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/

2018-05-09T13:17:40.587Z - error: VAMI is NOT accessilbe[4]: https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/, err: Request timed out after 30000 ms, url: https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/

2018-05-09T13:17:56.430Z - error: Could not get response for get request from url https://vcenter-67.nono.io:5480/: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 10.0.9.67:5480

 

thanks,

is it possible to release the space

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We have centos 5 and 7 running on vmware , in thick provision .

 

Just would like to confirm , as the vmware storage is full , I would like to release the space from each centos server , is there any way to reduce the volumn size from centos ? even if yes , as the vm host is thick provision , the released space will be added to unallocated group of vmware .

 

what I want is increase the size of vmware storage .

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