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Datastore vMotion Linked Clone VMs

November 9, 2017, 7:02 am
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I have situation where I have a bunch of VMs that I created via Powershell that are linked clones.  So I am not using View to manage them.  My problem is, I want to do some maintenance on the storage server they reside.  If I try to datastore migrate them to another storage server vCenter makes a copy of the base replica (that each VM shares) for each VM.  I could probable shut down the VMs then copy the files, but...

 

Can anyone recommend some code I could use that would allow me migrate powered on, linked clone VMs to another datastore without having to copy the base replica?

 

Thanks,

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after p2v sync fails any idea

November 9, 2017, 7:46 am
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after p2v sync fails any idea
using VMWare 5.5 and VMWare sync tool version-6.1

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Multiple connections to the same VC?

November 9, 2017, 3:41 am
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Hi,

 

I've been trying to get around the issue that some users don't have permissions to set DRS cluster group membership by connecting an additional user ("service account") to the same VC who has "modify cluster" permissions.

I've tried specifying the server using -Server ($global:DefaultVIServers | ?{$_.User -eq $ServiceAccount}) and it works when running manually, but when I run it in a script file it throws below error:

 

Set-DrsClusterGroup : 2017-11-08 15:54:17 Set-DrsClusterGroup Permission to perform this operation was denied. Required

privilege 'Host.Inventory.EditCluster' on managed object with id 'ClusterComputeResource-domain-c5869'.

+ ... " | Set-DrsClusterGroup -Server ($Global:DefaultVIServers | ? ...

+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-DrsClusterGroup], NoPermission

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_ComputeResourceServiceImpl_SetDrsClusterGroup_ViError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore

.Cmdlets.Commands.SetDrsClusterGroup

 

 

I've tried disconnecting the user then connecting the service account and it works when running manually, but when I run it in a script file it throws below error.

 

Get-DrsClusterGroup : 2017-11-09 10:42:24 Get-DrsClusterGroup Server domain\username@vcenter.domain.local:443 is not connected.

+ ...             Get-DrsClusterGroup -Type VMGroup -Cluster $Cluster -Name ...

+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-DrsClusterGroup], ViServerConnectionException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_ConnectivityServiceImpl_TryVerifyIsConnected_NotConnected,VMware.VimAutomation.Vi

Core.Cmdlets.Commands.GetDrsClusterGroup

 

 

Command: Get-DrsClusterGroup -Type VMGroup -Cluster $Cluster -Name $DRSGroup | Set-DrsClusterGroup -Add -VM $VMName

Powershell Version: 5.1.15063.674

PowerCLI Version: 6.5.2.6234650

 

 

It seems that the first user I connect with keep running commands even if I disconnect the user session and connect a new one when running it as a script, not as a terminal.

How can I switch user/connection in a script or specify which user/connection to use when running a command that does not have the -User parameter?

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Upgrading VMware Tools in an already configured shared productLocker

October 31, 2017, 5:56 am
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Hello,

 

I have been looking through several guides of lifecycle management articles of VMware Tools but not found out this (hopefully) easy and straight forward answer. How do you upgrade the VMware Tools version when you already have configured a shared productLocker for your hosts?


Case

  • Environment where all hosts already have been configured for a shared productlocker for example: /vmfs/volumes/sharedds01/productLocker/
  • VMware Tools 10.1.10

 

Goal

  • Upgrade VMware Tools to 10.1.15

 

What would be the proper way to upgrade VMware Tools to 10.1.15 ?

  1. Can you simply replace all the files in productLocker on the datastore without reboots required?
  2. .. or do you need to:
    1. Create a new directory with VMw Tools 10.1.15, something like /vmfs/volumes/sharedds01/productLocker2/
    2. Update UserVars.ProductLockerLocation
    3. Reboot ESXis / Create new symlinks
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проблема установки VmWare и P9D-M

November 7, 2017, 10:01 am
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Добрый день

При установке гипервизора VmWare выпадает ошибка

CPU_CORES ERROR: This host has 1 cpu core which is less than recommended 2 cpu cores.

 

Подскажите как победить данную проблему.

 

Процессор Xeon e3-1220 v3

Виртуализации в BIOS включена.

 

Заранее спасибо

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workstation 14 pro won't run workstation 12 virtual machine

October 30, 2017, 2:06 pm
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First time trying VMware - loaded workstation 12 - created virtual machine (SCO 6.0.0) - all without help

after a few days, the ports 20 (ftp) and 23 (telnet) quit working, still able to ping the ipaddress, in and out

upgraded to workstation 14 pro

now when I try to resume  the SCO virtual machine I get the following error:

 

This host supports AMD-V, but AMD-V is disabled.

AMD-V might be disabled if it has been disabled in the BIOS/firmware settings or the host has not been power-cycled since changing this setting.

(1) Verify that the BIOS/firmware settings enable AMD-V.

(2) Power-cycle the host if this BIOS/firmware setting has been changed.

(3) Power-cycle the host if you have not done so since installing VMware Workstation.

(4) Update the host's BIOS/firmware to the latest version.

This host does not support "AMD RVI" hardware assisted MMU virtualization.

Module 'CPUIDEarly' power on failed.

Failed to start the virtual machine.

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[VMW WorkStation 14 Pro] Host runs very, very slow when a guest VM is running.

November 8, 2017, 1:01 pm
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My host is Windows 10 Pro x86-64 with the Fall Creators Update.  Every since I installed VMWKS 14 Pro (I was on v12.5, I think) My host Windows 10 comes almost to a crawl when I run a Windows 10 guest.  I can hardly do anything on my host system as it takes a long time for anything I run to appear.  I never had this problem with v12.

 

My VM disks are all de-fragmented and compacted.  I uninstalled v12.5 before I installed v14.  Anyone here have a solution to my problem?

 

Thanks

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Need to join existing vCenter infrastructure into Active Directory

October 27, 2017, 6:29 am
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Hi to all,

 

I try to explain this infrastructure disaster recovery environment vCenter 5.5 U3:

 

1 VM SSO

1 VM WebClient

1 VM vCenter & Inventory

1 VM Database

1 VM Site Recovery Manger

 

all VM are working in workgroup and they resolve hostname with hosts file. I need to join all VM in a domain active directory and I think I will have some problem with self-signed certificate.

 

I don't find any guide about this, someone have experience about this?

 

Regards

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vSphere ESXi 6.5.0 Hardware Sensors

November 22, 2016, 2:13 pm
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Hello Everyone,

 

I have a Q170 based motherboard and have successfully loaded ESXi 6.5.0. However, ESXi does not display any Hardware Sensor Data and reports "No Sensor Data Available".

 

Does ESXi require BMC or IMPI to obtain hardware database? Does it not get at least basic sensor information from the CPU sensors, etc.?

 

Thanks

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Chargeback Manager & ITBM or Anything else ?

November 27, 2016, 11:01 pm
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Hi all,

 

I have many question about Chargeback Manager and ITBM.

 

I am using vCloud Director in my company. I thought that i want to use Chargeback Manager for managing cost and charge. But, I have read some articles with that Chargeback manager will be end of life at next year. And VMware is redirecting you to use vRealize Business for Cloud...

 

Already I'm using vRealize Business on my vRA environment. First question is, is vRealize Business for Cloud alternative to Chargeback manager? Because vRealize Business dashboard and reports looks like very simple. Chargeback manager looks like very complex and sounds like you can get reports for all components usage. I need bandwidth, quota and advanced report of network components. Does vRealize Business ( standart, advanced, enterprise ) meets these reports ? Which application do you advise for my environment ?

 

Second question is, I know that vRealize Automation is required for integrate Realize Business. I cannot integrate vRealize Business to vCloud director directly. right ?

 

Thanks.

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Boot from FCoE

November 5, 2017, 7:59 pm
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Hi Gurus, if I have a UCS Chassis and I will boot my ESXi Hosts via FCoE here we're speaking about Software FCoE adapter boot.

 

What I can't understand is that what is FCoE Boot  Parameter  Table (FBPT)

 

many thanks in advance

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Windows 10 Home purchased as a boxed version with contained USB Flash Drive

November 10, 2017, 8:03 am
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If I buy a boxed version of Windows 10 Home, one that contains (hopefully) both a valid license key as well as Windows 10 on a USB Flash Drive, is the file (or files) on the USB drive of a type that I can just perform a "new" VM install in Fusion 10.0.1 and either point to that file(s) or drag that file(s) to the location I see on the new VM install location in Fusion???  Or do I have to do something with the file(s) I will find on the Windows USB Flash Drive to say first convert to say a .ISO image or what??? 

 

I'm reading all sorts of heartaches online about how you go about getting a valid license if you download Windows so I'm leaning toward paying the money to just guy a boxed version that has everything (hopefully) contained.  Amazing that it appears to be hard (or maybe I'm making it hard???)

 

Anyway, what steps do I take to install from a boxed version of Windows 10, USB Flash Drive contained, to create a new Windows 10 VM under Fusion 10.0.1??

 

thanks

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A (mostly) OS Independent metric for space used/free/provisioned on the OS root partition

November 10, 2017, 7:58 am
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When I'm creating reports for our application owners, I thought it might be nice to show the amount of free space on the OS C:\ (Win) or / (Linux) partitions. Metrics for these do exist independently in vROPs out of the box, so I thought, easy, I'll just make a super metric which takes the value for the C:\ and the value for the / for a single machine and combine them, because you're never going to have a C:\ and a / partition on the same VM.

 

Not so much. When I try do this as a super metric, even a super metric where if the value of one is less then 0 it uses 0 instead, I don't get very far - instead the dreaded "no data to display" pops up. Here's an example of what I was working on:

 

(This Resource: guestfilesystem:/|percentage<=0)?(0):(This Resource: guestfilesystem:/|percentage)+(This Resource: guestfilesystem:C:\|percentage<=0)?(0):(This Resource: guestfilesystem:C:\|percentage)

 

 

Any ideas on whether/how it's possible to create a "unified" metric like this which doesn't really care what the Guest OS is but works regardless?

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Unified Access Gateway 3.0 Route Add/Delete

July 21, 2017, 10:14 am
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I hope this is just a quick couple of questions and I'm just blind from finding it online.

 

When you deploy UAG, you can add routes that are needed for 2NIC and 3NIC configurations.

 

1. How do you delete one of these routes? I do not see ifroute-eth* files that I would normally see on Suse.

2. What is the proper process for adding a route?

 

Thank you!

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vSphere Web Client breaks randomly with VCSA

January 20, 2016, 6:56 am
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Hi,

 

I'm running VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.0.0.10000, with an associated platform services controller (PSC). Every so often, accessing the vSphere Web Client just stops working, by which I mean, connecting with Chrome results in the unhappy grey face:

 

webclient-chrome.PNG

 

I'm currently running v47.0.2526.111m but this has happened on a number of occasion with earlier versions.

 

Restarting the vSphere Web Client from the command line doesn't fix anything. Rebooting both the VCSA and PSC does, but this isn't a suitable solution.

 

I can't see anything that suggests a problem in:

/var/log/vmware/vsphere-client/wrapper.log

/var/log/vmware/vsphere-client/logs/vsphere_client_virgo.log

 

Firefox wants me to install Flash, which I'm not going to do.

Edge and IE block attempts to connect saying "Content was blocked because it was not signed by a valid security certificate."

 

Does anyone have any other advice for troubleshooting this and getting it working again with Chrome?

 

Thank you.

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Moving vm's from ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 6

September 29, 2015, 1:22 pm
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We have four esx v4.0 hosts and a vcenter server on 2003.  Been running 7 years so it's time to retire.

 

The vm's are already on a new Equalogic iSCSI array.

 

I know I can't vmotion between the different hardware platforms, and vcenter server 6.0 won't manage ESXi 4.0 anyway.

 

If I bring up four new 6.0 hosts and a new vcenter server, I'm thinking I can shut down a vm, remove it from the 4.0 inventory, and add it to the 6.0 cluster.  Then boot it up.

 

Would this work?

 

Darron...

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Caps lock always turn on after switching from Windows 10 Virtual Machine to Host

November 5, 2017, 9:41 pm
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I have a really annoying problem since I upgraded to vmware fusion 10 (10.0.1) (why oh why do I keep upgrading)

 

When I move to the virtual machine which is hosting windows 10, no matter what caps state the virtual machine is in, my caps always goes on when I return to the host. So no caps in host to virtual machine no caps = CAPS when returning to host, no caps on host to caps on virtual machine = CAPS on host. I continually move from virtual machine to host which means that I constantly have to turn CAPS off. Can anyone tell me how I can fix this?

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How to set and pass variables within Software Components

November 10, 2017, 9:08 am
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Lets say in a composite that has 3 systems, I have a database server, a Front end and a back end system. At Deploy time, they each get software installed and configured. How would I set the name of the Database server at Deployment time and pass that data to the Front end and Back End systems as a configuration item?

 

Thanks in advance...

 

Roger

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upgrading issues from VC6.5 to VC6.5U1 and how to solve them

November 7, 2017, 7:59 am
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hello,

my environment is a little one, a vertex dell with 3 hosts, an embedded san shared on all the three, each host manages 10 active vms based on shared san, a vmware essentials license.

i'm still having big problems while trying to upgrade my vcenter windows installation from 6.5 to 6.5U1, the setup stops and cannot be rolled back, so after a couple of months of useless attempts and knowing the fact that i cannot migrate from VCwin6.5 to VCSA6.5U1, i'm trying to find another way. i'm thinking to follow these steps:

1. install a fresh copy of VCSA 6.5, trial license

2. unregister each of my three esxi hosts from VCwin6.5

3. turn off VCwin6.5 and forget it

4. register my license on VCSA6.5U1

5. register each of my three esxi hosts to VCSA6.5U1

 

any suggestion, concern or danger regarding these steps?

anything that am i forgetting or anything that will i lose with these steps?

thanks a lot in advance.

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2 Networks on 1 Host

November 10, 2017, 8:37 am
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Hi,

 

Looking for a bit of help as i am not super experienced with vmware.

 

I have inherited a setup where there are 2 separate networks in the 1 building.  Neither network needs to speak to the other and within the next few months i will be phasing 1 network out.

 

I have a DL380 G9 with ESXI 6.5 on it.  I have plugged a cable from each network into NIC 1 and 2 respectively.

 

What i want to do is vm the old outdated servers onto this G9.  Both of them are on hardware that looks like it could die any day.

 

Network A is 192.168.1.x

Network B is 192.168.20.x

 

How do i set it that i have a mangement ip on each subnet?  Currently i can see it from network B as it has an ip address on that subnet.  When i am on network A i cannot figure out how to contact the server.  Probably something very obvious but im stuck.

 

Thanks in advance.

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