We've been using View 5.3 for several years and it has been working quite well for us. We have a linked-clone with persona configuration. The past several days we've had instances where quite a few of the desktops are starting up in the morning with the persona service disabled. Generally we just reset their desktop and have them log back on. These past few days we've had to reset desktops multiple times to get the persona service to start up normally and personas to get sync'd. We don't believe there have been any changes in our View environment. Has anyone else run into this and know what might be causing it?
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Persona service intermittently starting up disabled
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BSOD on Windows Server 2016 after upgrade vmware tools (6.5u1)
I have just upgraded my vSphere infrastructure from 6.0 to 6.5u1. After update vmware tools some windows server 2016 (not all of then) presented BSOD on reboot.
Nothing seeams to solve, already tried safe mode, change scsi adapter...
Any idea anyone?
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Deleting Instant Clone Pool that is Stuck in Deleting State
Was having some issues with this test pool i created. First it wouldn't push out a new image so rather than keep trying to fix that i just tried deleting the pool and start over again. Well, that didn't work either. Removed all the desktops but one so i shut down that VM from the VI Client and deleted that manually. Now the pool has no Desktops but still stuck in Deleting state. The cp-parent is gone as well as the cp-replica and cp-template Any questions or comments are welcome. Thanks
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Vmware UEM and "Files and Folders"
Anyone have any experience with this? The documentation isn't the best as there is no real deep dive into it.
I'm looking at dropping in some files that hold a configuration information for an app into the users' "My Documents" folder. I cant seem to get it to work correctly. Inside the Documents folder, there is a combination of some other folders and files.
If someone has a pointer or insight, I would appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!
Larry
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why does VMware have so many problems on Linux
please let me first say that a *working* VMware or VMplayer is absolutely te best VM for a Linux installation. Having said that, I must say that it becomes ever more complicated to get VMware working on Linux.
Traditionally (i.e. the last five or six years) we got the situation that the vmmon module would not compile. Funny, because on a similar machine with the same (K)ubuntu installation it would compile flawlessly. I have at home one Kubuntu 17.10 with a 'good' VMplayer and two 17.10's with VMplayers that won't compile vmmon. On older (K)ubuntus it would sometimes working with a few patches, but not any more.
I now downloaded VMware 14, and it had no trouble at all with starting on a Kubuntu 17.10, but now it complains about not enough memory to install an old 32-bit XP version. Now 4 Gig may not be very much these days, but it never refused to start older VMplayer versions.
Am I doing things wrong, or is it VMware that is struggling to keep up with Linux updates? If so, which Linux woud be suitable and wich corresponding VM ware or VMplayer?
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Storage oddities - Corrupted Partition Table resulting in Vanishing VMFS5 and VMFS6 Datastores - Why?
I've had something odd occur twice now in our environment, each occurrence in a different datacenter. I'm a bit stumped, and a little concerned that I can't determine the root cause for this.
What has happened is:
1. Datastore on FC attached EMC VMAX250f LUN becomes unmounted from all attached hosts
2. Datastore cannot be re-mounted
3. Rescan of storage results in the Datastore being removed entirely from the list of Datastores. The underlying LUN for this datastore is now listed as available for creation of a new Datastore, and vSphere does not recognize that there is any existing Datastores on the LUN.
4. VOMA recognizes that there is a VMFS file system detected on the lun, and shows 0 errors
5. "partedUtil getptbl" shows that there are no partitions defined on the LUN
6. Following KB2046610, I was able to recover both Datastores by re-creating it's entry in the Partition Table, and I'm then able to remount the LUN on all the hosts
So, this has happened twice now, each in a different datacenter and thus on different storage frames. The commonality is however, that these LUNS were both provisioned on the same model of storage frame, an EMC VMAX250F. These frames are roughly 6 months old and are the first of this model placed into service in our datacenters.
In datacenter 1, our vsphere hosts are ESXi 6.5U1 with vCenter 6.5U1. In datacenter 2, our hosts are ESXi 6.0d with vCenter 6.5U1.
I'm at a loss for trying to determine why this may be happening. Is there anything configuration wise on the SAN side that would possibly explain this issue?
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Preciso taggear os hosts ESXi com a mesma VLAN do switch físico?
Galera!
Pode ser uma pergunta idiota, mas se vocês conseguirem me ajudar eu agradeço, rs.
Eu tenho 2 switches configurados com uma VLAN dedicada para SAN. Meus hosts serão conectados também nesse range de portas da VLAN.
A pergunta é, eu também tenho que configurar essa VLAN lá em Networking do vSphere ESXi? Ou simplesmente por haver roteamento não precisa configurar?
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Deleting orphaned vRO Context Action?
I have run into an issue where I have a Context Action still showing up in the vCenter Web Client, that no longer exists in vRO. Because the workflow has been deleted, I'm unable to unconfigure it as a context action.
Is it possible to manually delete this from the web client, possibly through the MOB explorer?
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Issue with PSC and Enhanced Link Mode
I'm having issues getting Enhanced Link Mode to work and I'm not sure where to go from here. Below is the situation.
1 SSO Domain
2 SSO Sites
2 vcenter Servers (VCSA Appliances)
2 External PSCs
I have one PSC at each site, and I have successfully re-pointed both vcenter servers from their embedded PSC to the External PSC for each site.
I was under the impression the enhanced link mode would start working after these steps are complete. Is there something I need to do to link the PSCs? I read if they are in the same SSO Domain, they will replicate right away. Am I missing something?
Any help is appreciated.
- Mark
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esxi6 - Bootbank cannot be found at path '/bootbank' host disconnect from vcsa
Hi All,
I experiencing an issue, a esxi 6 host was disconnected from my VCSA 6.0, but all VM in that host are working fine. DUCI was hang and I have not enable ssh. so I am no way just reboot esxi host. but one week later , another esxi host in same cluster occurred with the same issues.
after check vCenter log some messages findings:
- Issue detected on 10.1.xx.xxx in it-dc01: Virtual machine creation may fail because agent is unable to retrieve VM creation options from the host (N5Vmomi5Fault17HostCommunication9ExceptionE(vmodl.fault.HostCommunication)).
- Issue detected on 10.1.xx.xxx in it-dc01: Bootbank cannot be found at path '/bootbank'
- Issue detected on 10.1.xx.xxx in it-dc01: hostd detected to be non-responsive
- app1(VM) on host 10.1.12.200 in it-dc01 is disconnected.
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script-structure_powercli
Hello Luc,
By mistake i deleted previous post for this query.
however below is your response.but i dont see any changes to what i posted .
also we are using RemoveAllSnapshots($true) so that means it shoud remove all snapshots .
my specific question is once snapshotdeletion started will script not pick the second task of traffic remediation.
$conn = $global:defaultviserver
if ($conn -cne $null) {
write-output "there is already session to" $conn.name
disconnect-viserver "*" -force -confirm:$true
}
$vc = read-host "provide the vcenter name"
connect-viserver -server $vc -username "administrator@vsphere.local" -password ""
$cluster = read-host "provide the cluster name"
foreach ($vm_snapshot in (Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name, snapshot -SearchRoot $cluster.MoRef|? {$_.snapshot -cne $null})) {
$vm_snapshot.name
if ($vm_snapshot -eq $null) {
write-output "nothing to remediate for snapshot"
}
else {
$rem = read-host "do yu want to remediate snapshot"
}
if ($rem -eq "yes") {
write-output "deleting snapshot please wait"
$vm_snapshot.RemoveAllSnapshots($true)
}
}
#traffic separation
$vmhosts = get-vmhost -location $cluster
foreach ($hos in $vmhosts) {
$vmkernel = Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMKernel -VMHost $hos|Where-Object {$_.managementtrafficenabled -eq $true -and $_.vmotionenabled -eq $true}
$vmkernel|select @{N = 'esxi name'; E = {$hos.name}}, @{N = 'vmkernel port'; E = {$_.name}}
if ($vmkernel -eq $null) {
Write-Output "nothing to remediate for traffic separation"
}
else {
$rem1 = read-host " do yu want to remediate traffic separation"
}
if ($rem1 -eq "yes") {
write-output "remediating traffic separation"
$vmkernel|Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMotionEnabled $false -confirm:$false
}
}
#sshdisable
foreach ($esxi in $vmhosts) {
$sshpolicy = Get-VMHostService -VMHost $esxi | Where {$_.Key -eq "TSM-SSH"}
if ($sshpolicy.running -eq $false) {
write-output "nothing to remediate for ssh service in $esxi"
}
else {
$rem2 = read-host " do yu want to remediate ssh"
}
if ($rem2 -eq "yes") {
write-output "remediating ssh"
Stop-VMHostService $sshpolicy -Confirm:$true
}
}
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Get List of IP addresses for each VM
Hello,
I have a script to get Ip address and vm name:
Get-VM | Select Name,VMHost, @{N="IP Address";E={@($_.guest.IPAddress[0])}} |
Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation C:\Users\gemela\Desktop\machine_ip.csv
I get only one IP, I want to get also management ip and backup ip.
Is possible? ideally will be nice to get all IP for each machine.
Thanks
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BETA program web page isn't over HTTPS
The BETA link at VMware vSphere Beta is't using HTTPS. I'd like to sign up to it but I REFUSE to send my data over plain text. I'm actually shocked that VMWare seem to consider this acceptable. What's worse is that the HTTPS version of the page has multiple TLS errors.
VMWare, you should be better than this. I'm horrified that you're so cavalier about HTTPS.
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'vCenter Converter' fails to install with 'Error 29142: Could not start service Vstor2 MntApi 2.0 Driver (shared)'
Hi,
Trying to install 'vCenter Converter', the installer fails with this error:
- Error -> "Error 29142: Could not start service Vstor2 MntApi 2.0 Driver (shared)"
- Event Viewer -> "The Vstor2 MntApi 2.0 Driver (shared) service failed to start due to the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning"
Environment is:
- Physical Machine: HP Compaq nw8440 ( laptop )
- Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP3
- Run 'vCenter Converter' installer using 'Administrator' account
There is nothing attached to the laptop when I try to install 'vCenter Converter'
I tried:
- Several versions of 'vCenter Converter' from 4.3.0 to 5.5.3 ( all of them supporting installation in Windows XP ) -> Same error
- Uninstall / Reinstall USB ports ( USB Root Hub ) in the Physical Machine -> Same error
- Restart several times the Physical Machine -> Same error
Attached is the log file the installer generated ( invoking the installer: VMware-converter-all-5.5.0-292238.exe /v"/l*v VMwareInstall.log" ) -> Search for: '29142'
Any idea?
Thanks
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Get deep information about VM disks
Hello,
There is a way with powershell where I can get deeply information about disk in VMware?
Disk space: allocate/provisioned, cylinders..not sure if is possible to get this kind of info.
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TypeError: Cannot call method "getAttribute" of null
We have an odd issue where we have a workflow that runs and creates and AD group with the $, but it fails to rename the group with the message below. If I start the group name with A-L it works, but anything above that failes. We are at vrealize orchestrator 7.3 and AD plugin is 3.0.5. I have tested on a different domain and it works fine. So not sure if it is a AD issue.
Error in (Workflow:Create AD Group and add user / Set Group Name Consistently (item12)#55024) TypeError: Cannot call method "getAttribute" of null
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ESXi 5.1.0 on Dell PowerEdge T410 - vSphere Configuration Tab Shows Predictive Failure on a Disk
Hi:
I have a Dell PowerEdge T410 running ESXi 5.1.0. On the vSphere Configuration tab, the sensors are indicating a warning and some array alerts stemming from a drive predictive failure. See attached screenshot.
How do I troubleshoot this effectively? I don't think the Dell OpenManage s/w running on a Windows vm on the host will see the host disks and arrays, or will it? I guess I must connect and configure the DRAC, in which case I'll need to take the server down to cfg. it, ya?
As of now, I don't think I can even blink the drives to tell which bay has the predicted bad drive, unless I reboot into controller, taking the machine offline.
Thanks for any input!
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Workstation 14, FWIIW
I have been running WS since back at 4.0 or so. Installed 14 on 30 day trial before upgrading.
Dell Workstation, Linux Mint 17.1 as host. Many Windows and Linux VM's.
Never before have I seen so many crashes that required rebooting the host system. Although 12.5 seems more fragile than 11, 14 takes the cake.
Yesterday, for the first time in years, a well used W7 VM BSOD'd. That did it. (yes, accelerate graphics is off, tried both ways).
Have gone back to 12, maybe retry when it is at .2 or .3.
Lou
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Appstack and Horizon USB issues when UEM in installed but not configured
Word of warning for anyone starting a UEM migration, it appears that UEM can mess with PCoIP USB if it is left in a running but unconfigured state.
We installed UEM in a Gold master image and left the service to automatic startup, with no UEM GPO's were applied to the linked clone pools. (We were preparing for UEM migration/testing)
USB devices fail to attach in the initial login session, a reconnect on PCoIP allows the devices to pass through from the Zero client. The issue also seems to delay the attachment of Appvolumes appstacks. PCoIP server log reports:
LVL:1 RC: 0 SOFT_USB :VHUBLIB(error): GetUemStatus : Failed to open key path is Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware UEM\SessionData\1
LVL:1 RC: 0 SOFT_USB :VHUBLIB(error): The UEM component is still not ready yet
Workaround is to set the service to manual/disabled until UEM is required for a desktop pool. If UEM is enabled at login (say via the GP extension method), the issue does not occur. We didn't raise a case for this, but an interesting one anyway.
(UEM 9, Appvol 2.9, Horizon 7)
Josh
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SimpliVity (OmniCube)
Hi folks,
Can someone share experience about SimpliVity (OmniCube) product if you ever used it, please?
Thank you
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