Folks,

I have been working with VAAI for NAS certification tests, and unfortunately I got stuck in two questions of the test parameter information which are listed below. These questions are required for the NativeVMCVNetworkOutage and NAtiveFileCVNetworkOutage tests case, and are part of the File Clone primitive. The questions that I am not sure how to answer are:

NASVOL1?

and

NASVOL2?

I have the information of DATASTORE1 and 2, NASEXPORT1 and 2, NASHOST, etc... but I really don't know what exactly the SOURCE NAS VOLUME for NASVOL1 and  DESTINATION NAS VOLUME for NASVOL2 would be.

I really appreciate your help! tks.

Dictionary object holds test parameter information

    Please Enter The Name Of The Datacenter ? for DATACENTER   

    Please Enter DataStore Name ? for DATASTORE1   

    Please Enter DataStore Name ? for DATASTORE2   

    Please Enter NASExport ? for NASEXPORT1   

    Please Enter NASExport ? for NASEXPORT2   

    Please Enter NASHost ? for NASHOST   

   Enter the source Nas volume ? for NASVOL1    

    Enter the destination Nas volume ? for NASVOL2  

    Please Enter the IP of the VCHost ? for VCHOST   

    Please Enter The Name Of The VM ? for VM   

    Please Enter Vmnic For Networkoutage Test ? for VMNIC   

    Please Enter Vswitch For Networkoutage Test ? for VSWITCH   

Hi all,

We currently have Horizon View 6.0.]

When we want to watch fullscreen video's on YouTube, the video has alot of frame drops. It isnt smooth. This happens whenever we use fullscreen. Not if you have a small screen. It doenst matter what quality we use. 480, 720P , 1080P. all goes laggy/frame drops.

We have disabled 3D renedering and use 4 cores on a VDI. We used IE and Chrome. We cant seem to get it working smooth.

any ideas?

kind regards,

Coskun

Folks,

I have been running the SRM 5.1 FC certification testing for a SRA plug-in for a couple of days. So far, 83 out 84 tests listed on the workbench have passed without any problems. But, for a couple of days, I have had ERRORS with only one test, the IntegrationTests::Recovery. This test takes about 5 hours to complete, and it has been failing with the following errors listed below:

Failed to rescan HBAs on host 'MY_HOST_NAME'. Unable to communicate with the remote host, since it is disconnected

UTC --> [ERROR 0030 - CONFIG] SRM server task at the primary site vCenter server MY_IP_ADDRESS failed.

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC --> - Fault: (dr.storageProvider.fault.DatastoreRecoveryFailed) {

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->    dynamicType = <unset>,

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->    faultCause = (dr.storageProvider.fault.RecoveryVmfsVolumeNotFound) {

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->       dynamicType = <unset>,

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->       faultCause = (dr.storageProvider.fault.RecoveryDeviceNotFound) {

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->          dynamicType = <unset>,

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->          faultCause = (dr.storage.fault.HostRescanFailed) {

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->             dynamicType = <unset>,

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->             faultCause = (vmodl.fault.HostNotConnected) {

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->                dynamicType = <unset>,

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->                faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->                msg = "Unable to communicate with the remote host, since it is disconnected.",

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->             },

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->             hostName = "XXXXXXX",

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->             hostSystem = 'vim.HostSystem:host-28',

2014-07-22 00:07:23 UTC -->            msg = "Failed to rescan HBAs on host 'XXXXXXX'. Unable to communicate with the remote host, since it is disconnected.",

2014-0

It seems to me that this error is not related to the SRA plug-in, but with the VCenters servers (Primary or Secondary), which for some reason are getting disconnected.

Basic SRM tunings (Advanced Setting for timeouts only) are in place and working fine.

I am working with the recommended ESXi, SRM and VC combination for the certification testing, which are 5.1 GA.

Your help is really appreciated.

Regards,

Andy

Hello ,

I had deployed a new VCAC 6.0.1 environment and i am getting lots of error at /var/log/vmware/sso/vmware-sts-idmd.log which talks about "Failed to retrieve upnSuffixes in AD Over Ldap provider"

[2014-08-01 16:09:00,453 demo            05180a84-03a1-4771-9c80-148a8cbe3c6d ERROR] [LdapWithAdMappingsProvider] Failed to retrieve upnSuffixes in AD Over Ldap provider demo.test.local

java.security.InvalidParameterException: Null or empty values

  at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.provider.BaseLdapProvider.getStringValues(BaseLdapProvider.java:238)

  at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.provider.ldap.LdapWithAdMappingsProvider.getAlterUpnSuffixes(LdapWithAdMappingsProvider.java:233)

  at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.provider.ldap.LdapWithAdMappingsProvider.getRegisteredUpnSuffixes(LdapWithAdMappingsProvider.java:283)

  at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.provider.BaseLdapProvider.normalizeAliasInPrincipal(BaseLdapProvider.java:363)

  at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.provider.ldap.LdapWithAdMappingsProvider.authenticate(LdapWithAdMappingsProvider.java:304)

  at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.IdentityManager.authenticate(IdentityManager.java:2420)

  at com.vmware.identity.idm.server.IdentityManager.authenticate(IdentityManager.java:7907)

  at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor91.invoke(Unknown Source)

  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

  at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(Unknown Source)

  at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Unknown Source)

  at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Unknown Source)

  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

  at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Unknown Source)

  at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(Unknown Source)

  at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(Unknown Source)

  at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

  at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

I am not sure is this normal behavior? i doubt not but wanted to know if not what would be probably happening wrong around in here...

Thanks in Advance !!

Br,

MG

Hello,

We're using Mirage Console version 4.2.3.15875.

Due to a chassis failure we have had to move a hard drive over to a new machine. As such, we've had to rename the hard drive to match up to the new chassis. This has meant that the newly named machine has appeared in pending devices (as if awaiting a new base layer).

I don't want to apply a new base layer to this hard drive as it is already imaged the way we desire. Is there any way that I can move a device from Pending to All CVD's? And then get the machine to backup with Mirage?

Thanks for reading.
Alex

I'm looking for a best practice/recommendations for my ESXi hosts on a different subnet than the vDesktops running on them.

I have a Horizon View cluster that I just built and in the process of putting vDesktops on it. I am currently using a dvSwitch and right now the hosts and the vDesktops are on the same subnet. I will need to vDesktops to go onto the same subnet as my physical PCs and the hosts to remain on the same subnet they are on (which is a server subnet). Should I just create another dvSwitch for the hosts and management VMkernal Ports to be on or can I create another port group? I have a port group on this dvSwitch now for vMotion - which is on its own subnet - so i assume I can just do the same. Obviously, I will have to pull a couple of the physical adapters that are on the current dvSwitch and assign them to the new switch or port group for the hosts. If there is a more efficent way, with out having to "use" 2 or 4 of the 14 NIC adapters that I currently have between the hosts to get put the host an VM's on different subnets, that would be great.

Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance.

I am trying to build a multi-tenant environment with two ESXi hosts in a data center. A SAN will be coming eventually so I want to start my base build with that thought in mind prior to implementation. When the SAN arrives I would like to just plug it in and not have to re-architect my network.

I am using a Cisco 2960S 24 port switch, 1 of my ESXi hosts has 4 nics & the other has 8 nics. I do know I am NOT going to be using the VMware vDistributed switch.

From all the talking I have done with people, I am told I don’t want to implement any type of link aggregation on the Cisco end of things and just let VMware handle all of that LB/FT. I am open to any argument on this point as I don’t take a stance either way.

Since this will be a multi-tenant environment, I am curious about vSwitch/PortGroup design with security in mind.

#1 Do I bond all NICs to a single vSwitch and use multiple Port Groups for each VLAN? Would this be a secure method of keeping traffic between VLANs segmented?

#2 Do I instead create vSwitch’s for each VLAN and bond the appropriate vSwitch? (seems like a waste of physical NICs to me)

#3 Should I allow all VLANs or just specify the ones I want to pass through (security minded me is thinking specify)

Most traffic will be in from the VLAN to WAN, maybe 5% of traffic will route between VLANs (I did read that routing between vSwitches would occur on my firewall if between two vSwitches)

All of this will hit my Sonicwall Firewall which has 6 nics. I figured I would use a couple nics on the Sonicwall assigned to various VLANs on my different vSwitches or PortGroups (depending on the method I go). I know the config side of the Sonicwall pretty well, but I want to keep all traffic to occur on the Cisco 2960S if it resides on any network on that switch.

We have expanded our Volume and LUN on our NetApp SATA VMStore from 2TB to 4TB, we now want to expand within vCenter, am I ok to do this inside of office hours whilst vms are running on the datastore?

Going in via configuration - storage - etc etc..

Hi Guys,

Can anyone explain the what is the control and Data Panes in Swithces in ESXi level?

How ESXi handles the VMs traffic?

I would like to request a very simple feature:

Please add either VM groups to Fusion Pro, or add start/stop functionality to the folders.

I'm using Fusion Pro to run whole test environments which consists of a group of VMs. For example a common test environments contains an Active Directory server, an application server, a desktop broker and one or more client machines.

• Each such environment consists of 3-6 machines.
• They all share the same private network.
• They are all started and stopped together.
• An independent window is not necessary, a such group could share one window where one can switch between the VMs. (I will post this as separate thread).
• It would also be nice if the window opens on the desktop where it was used the last time.

Currently I have to start each VM individually and stop them individually. It would be simple, but each time the VM window pops up, and often covers the library window, also for performance reason I often have to wait some seconds until I can start the next VM. Starting and stopping a group of VMs together would help a lot.

A simple solution would be to allow "Start All" and "Stop All" on a folder.

Can someone verify if Horizon 6 with View will run under vSphere 5.5 (vCenter) u1c?

thanks

Hello guys,

Today I'm playing arround with a virtual machine (Host is ubuntu 14.04 and VM is Win7) in order to stop time synchronization like i did a long time ago on a VM under WS9. When i added those lines to my new vmx, the VM became unavailable because of corrupted vmx :

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"

time.synchronize.continue = "TRUE"

time.synchronize.restore = "FALSE"

time.synchronize.resume.disk = "FALSE"

time.synchronize.shrink = "FALSE"

time.synchronize.tools.startup = "FALSE"

time.synchronize.tools.enable = "FALSE"

time.synchronize.resume.host = "TRUE"

rtc.startTime = "1406623157"

What i need is to stop time synchronization with host but i don't want to revert each time to the same date.

I'd like let the system time runs only when i use the VM.

So how can i achieve this with the brand new july preview version, without the need to upgrade the machine to older version of WorkStation ?

Maybe it's a bug or i did something wrong or maybe options have changed ...

Thank's for your help.

Aurelien

After installing Mavericks OS on my MAC I have been unable to navigate to any URL in any browser. The error is unable to connect to the proxy server. I thought that it might be due to running an older version of vmware, so I upgraded to Fusion 6 which did not solve my issue. I have a WiFi network connection on my MAC that works just fine but in my VM running WIN 7 I can only ping other IP addresses, and when I try and reach a URL it fails. I have tried switching  NAT to Bridged with a Auto and WiFI connection, and tethered to my cell phone with no Joy! The only way I have been successfully connected to the internet is with an Ethernet connection Bridged on my VM.

Can someone please help?

I am unable to see the Orchestrator Server on web client

vCenter Server IP : 192.168.95.233

Orchestrator: Installed along with the vCenter

Please find the attached image

I'm using Fusion Pro to run test environments. A such test environment consists of 3-6 VMs which:

• Share the same private network.
• Are always started/stopped together.
• The visibility of the screen is secondary.

This is my request:

Please allow to group several VMs into one single window.

• The window could show one screen and a dropdown where one can select which screen is displayed.
• There could be "split" options to display multiple screens side by side in this window.
• Closing the window will stopp all VMs.

This would solve many problems. Especially if I run multiple such test environments. A current Mac Pro is allowing up to 40 running VMs easily. I often run multiple test environments with 3-6 VMs each on the same machine and additional developer machines. Having >10 VM windows doesn't help much, neither have them open as spaces.

It would be great to have e.g. 3 windows: Test Env 1 (with 5 VMs), Test Env 2 (with 4 VMs), Dev VM. Each window could be opened as own space. This would be perfect and very productive.

Hello,

I am building vCenter server 5.5.0U1C with two server model where one host DB instance and other host rest of the vCenter Binaries.Below is the error i got while running vCenter install

I ran Query

SELECTCASEWHEN'A'='a'THEN'NOT CASE SENSITIVE'ELSE'CASE SENSITIVE'END

I got return as "NOT CASE SENSITIVE"

But if i understand correct from error it specifically tells about cause of failure as "The Database is installed in Case Insensitive Mode" which this query proves.

I chanced the Mode from Case Insensitive Mode to Case Sensitive Mode by changing collation to "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS"

I this time got error

I have no clue now what has gone wrong making installation failure.

BTW, Client version on Remote DB server and App server are same and i am using MS SQL 2012 SP1 with windows 2008 R2 SP1 as windows OS both side.

Please help me find the solution, i really now clueless with the cause of it.

Thanks in advance

Br,

MG

Hey guys,

Thought I would post this here to see if anyone has seen or experienced this issue we had during a DR test.

Background on environment:

2x sites (Head Office and DR) connected via Fibre

2x VMware vCenter Servers (One each site)

2x 6x Node ESXi 5.5 Clusters (One each site)

2x IBM V7000 SAN replicated async using Global Mirror

We use our DR site as a DEV/Test Environment outside of DR.

So this is what happened. On Saturday we simulated a DR at our Head Office site. By this I mean we shut down all VM's running on the cluster including the Head office vCenter server. All that was left running was the hosts. We then switch the direction of our mirroring making Head Office LUN's Read Only and making DR LUN's R/W. We the present these LUN's to the DR cluster.

So at this point we shutdown all DEV/TEST workload and there are only a handful of non DEV/TEST servers running on the DR cluster (DR vCenter, Domain Controller, Core network Services)

We then proceed to rescan the storage of a DR Host and add the DR LUN's one by one without resignaturing the LUN. (We did this once in the past when in ESX v4). This process of rescanning and adding the storage to the DR host took forever. And what I expected was once scanned and added to the first host the others do their normal rescan and automatically add the volumes. This didn't happen. It was taking in excess of 20mins per lun to scan in the add storage wizard.

On these DR hosts we have probably 80 LUN's assigned with the DR/DEV/TEST LUN's assigned together. Some are RDM's.

We ended up rolling back, switching the mirrors back and undoing everything.

We have done this process in the past when on vSphere v4.1 and expected it to work as planned but now I'm stumped.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Garrick

Hello.

We are having some trouble with our VMware View installation, desktops seem to become unavailable after doing a recompose for a pool inside Vmware View administrator.

ESXi on the hosts, 5.1.0, 1065491.

VMware Horizon View 5.3.0 build-1427931.

The solution has been running fine for some time, 7-9 months.

Desktop config: WIn 7 Enterprise x64 SP1, vmxnet3, no cd/floppy, connected to network and working fine, standard virtual switch, working fine.

All connections through PCoIP, direct to connection server.

A week a go we updated our Win7 Enterprise x64 template as usual, making a new snapshot, making this snapshot as default for a desktop pool in View, and doing a recompose for all the desktop VMs.

Recompose completed without errors.

When connecting to the pool, user is authenticated, and View administrator says in the log that user was granted pool DT01.
However the View client remains black, ie nothing is showing in the client, and after 3 minutes is shows a timeout error.

When trying to connect again, it shows: "The display protocol for this desktop is currently not available. Please contact system administrator."

I have searched a lot, and tried alot of solutions, regarding this well known "black screen when connecting through PCoIP".

I have tried:

* Reverted back to original snapshot before error, still same behaviour after recompose.

* Checking the scratch disk, 1,5GB free of total 4GB, increased also to 5 GB (added 1 GB). Same problem.

* Installed a MS patch regards to vmxnet3 nic driver giving PCI errors and detecting as "new" device when cloning/recomposing, after patch, still same error.

* After recompose, in vSphere, i log in to a client with local administrator, open "cmd" and can ping DNS, DHCP, DC and connection servers. nslookup gives all ok. Network seems fine. DNS records on DNS servers seem to point to correct name <-> IP. (and PTR)

* After recompose, and after a users tries a connection, a specific desktop is mentioned in the log. If I try to connect to this desktop through vSphere and console, the desktop seem to be freezed. I cannot type anything or enter the desktop.I then reboot the client,

I log in to a client with local administrator, checked pcoip agent/server logs, no -500 errors or similar, mostly 0, one error regards to certifcate, but we have no offical ssl yet on the connection server. No apparent or obvious error messages.

* Local firewall on clients are disabled through GPOs, and firewall in our company have ports opened since this setup has worked fine before.

* This problem is also now happening on another Desktop Pool (in same environment, different template/snapshot).

In log on VMware Connection server, it says BROKER POOL PROTOCOL UNAVAILABLE.

I have found that VMware vSphere says, when recomposing,:

"The device naa.xxxxxxx performance has deteriorated. IO Latency increased from average value 2432 microseconds to 49651 microseconds."

and

"Migration of "win-template" to "esxi-host1.contoso.com" and resource pool. Resources: Copying this virtual machine will cause loss of snapshots at the destination"

What does this mean?

Ok, so this is the problem, and some solutions we have tried.

I have found that the work-around for all this is to reboot the desktop 1 time after recompose is done.
This causes everything to work fine, as it's supposed to - log in works fine and user connects. However, when user logs off, desktop is deleted, then recomposed from the snapshot/tenplate, ie gives the same error when new user tries and gets allocated this same desktop.

I have found a citrix/vmware blog, which mentioned GPO issues. GPO not beeing applied, until another reboot after recompose.

However, I can not wrap my head around what GPO or setting missing would cause this timeout or PCoIP error message, I have previously used View without GPO settings for View persona/agent, and it worked fine.

I think we can eliminate firewall issues, since it is working after the desktop is rebooted, and it has worked before, and network dep says no changes have been made (have to trust them:) )

We can always create a script, to boot machines after recompose etc, but this is a nasty workaround, and we need to get this fixed.

Any hints and tips people?

Thank you very much.

When configuring a policy, and specifically the "capacity and time remaining" area, we are asked to choose between (or to enable both):

By demand, and

By allocation

I'm not really clear how to leverage these settings - when should I choose one, when the other?

If I choose "by allocation" ... I don't understand what that would do. Is it something like this:

if using By Allocation, then when vCOPs assesses whether useable capacity is being approached, it will add up all that has been allocated and see what is physically remaining, and calculate how much more the workload can grow. Doing this, it will NOT account for the fact that some VMs are over-provisioned, or under-provisioned. It will just calc: how much is there physically - how much has been allocated. Correct?

If using By Demand, then it will try to account for the fact that some VMs are over-provisioned, thereby recognizing that even though the "allocation" count is running out of capacity, there is perhaps still more available.

Is that about right?

Hi,

I'm trying to solve this situation in my enviroment. Now, we have over 100 users using view with persona management enabled. VMs user have persistents disks to store windows profile in combination with persona management. Profiles are stored in a windows 2008 R2 fileserver with 8GB, same vm network, no problems detected.

I enabled persona management  logs and no problems detected.

How can I reduce those timings? Users are upset with this situation and I can´t do anything to solve it.

Thank you very much in advanced.