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Random corruption sharing a physical disk with a VM (and a real instance)

November 27, 2017, 8:18 am
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I'm really trying hard to get a good workflow going with VMWare Workstation. I run Linux most of the time and use VMWare for running a Windows 10 VM, mostly for photographic work (scanning film and Lightroom). I have set it up so that the VM's OS drive is an LVM raw mount on my host that sits on an SSD. Then I have a data drive that is a spinning disk which I also occasionally like to use when I boot into a standalone install of Windows 10. The latter is primarily because Lightroom can REALLY bog down on large scans on the VM and it doesn't seem to do that when booting directly in.

 

I have noticed also though that I get random data corruption on the data drive. This seems to happen with regular use but can really show itself when I share the drive between the physical and VM installs although it does seem to happen even when I don't do that. It'll randomly corrupt files in a seemingly nonsensical way. I set the VM to use the physical drive to try and avoid that kind of stuff and also to get better performance but seems like I'm getting neither.

 

Any thoughts/tips on how to better handle that? I thought about using an iSCSI volume within the VM itself that was mapped to my NAS but I only have 1gb to it and in times past I found I'd run into that limitation often. Lightroom doesn't like to use shared volumes so I can't simply setup a share to my NAS.

 

I'm on the free version currently. I had planned on buying it but given the issues I'm running into, it's currently not worth that investment :/

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IDM 3.0 - Multi Domain - Single Sign On - Kerberos

November 17, 2017, 2:17 am
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Hi all,

 

We have a little challenge in the following situation.

We have a Top level Domain and 6 Child Domains:

 

top.local

     - Domain1.top.local

     - Domain2.top.local

     - Domain3.top.local

     - Domain4.top.local

     - Domain5.top.local

     - Domain6.top.local

 

In one Datacenter, and all the domains in the same network.

What we try to accomplish is that users on location of Domain 3, log into their thin clients with their UPN to the Thin Client and then log into VMware IDM 3.0 portal.
They now need to login twice (one time to the thin client, the second time to IDM). They really want to have SSO implemted in their environment.

 

So we configured Kerberos Authentication.
The situation is also in IDM that we have 1 connector for all the domains

 

 

When we have, as above have 2 domains enabled, like domain3.top.local & top.local.


And we login to a thin client / vdi :

 

We log in:

 

 

Then we open a browser (chrome)

 

We need to fill in username / user principal name in order to login

 

And we press "Volgende" or "Next"

We get into the portal (without entering Password! so Single Sign On works, except for the username part)

 

When we go back to the configuration of the Connector and we configure it for only 1 domain:

only for top.local in this case:


We go back to the vdi/thin client:

 

We log in again with the same credentials:

We open the browser again and fill in the URL:

And when we press enter:

 

 

It works as we expect and how we want it to work!

 

So only if there is one domain, then this is possible. With multiple domains not... We are not able to create a connector per domain (strangly enough)

 

Any suggestions are welcome!

Thanks in advance

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Help configuring VM Fusion 8 network adapters for Oracle 12c RAC with SCAN Listener on Oracle Linux

November 27, 2017, 10:08 am
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Good day all,

 

I have for months now being unable to configure VM Fusion 8 network adapters for Oracle 12c RAC with SCAN Listener on Oracle Linux. Earlier with VMware Fusion 6 i was able to install and configure Oracle 11g Release 2 2-node RAC with static ips. But between Fusion 6 and Fusion 8, the network adapter filenames have changed a bit. And there lies my confusion. By the way this is Fusion 8 pro.

Will appreciate any help or directions to the right source of material that could help me in this regards.

 

Thanks.

/Azum.

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Vmware UAG 3.1 Reverse Proxy for a internal Web site

November 27, 2017, 2:21 am
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Hello,

 

I must configure a internal web site on Vmware UAG 3.1, my UAG is configured for VMware Workspace and my Horizon. Now I must add one Web Site.

Example:

My web site is http://INTRANET.domain.local/intranet

My UAG is https://workspace.domain.com

 

I configure a new reverse proxy on configuration of my Vmware UAG but on logs /opt/vmware/gateway/esmanager.logs I have one Warning WARN networkcore.HttpsRequestRouter[channelRead: 136][]:Error message:null. No proxying rules for http request GET /intranet When I connect on https://workspace.domain.com/intranet

 

If you help me, thanks.

 

Seb

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Corrupt .vmx After Upgrade to 10

November 22, 2017, 8:27 pm
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After a catastrophic cascading failure of so many different parts of my system, I was glad to find I had my VMs still in good shape.  Or so I thought.  During the process of recovery, I did some long needed upgrades, and found that any of my VMs I wanted to run showed up as corrupt.

 

A bit of digging, it turns out this sometimes happens with an upgrade.  In some of those cases, the lock files (*.lck) are the problem.  Bueno!  Easy to fix.  Except it didn't fix it.  Restart Fusion, still no bueno.  Apparently someone at VMware can take the vmware.log file and re-create the vmx for you.  I'm hoping that person is watching this thread and can get my vmx back for me.  Andre (a.p.), if you're out there, or if there's a new Andre, please help.  I've attached the vmware.log and the Ubuntu.vmx that's apparently corrupt.

 

-Michael

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SRM 6.5 configuration with EMC RecoveryPoint

November 27, 2017, 10:30 am
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I All,

need help for configuring Array manager after having made pairing and install SRA for the storage (unity and vnx 5000 series) on both site.

i got this issue:

 

"discovery arrays" failed

 

cause :

Unable to locate enabler for input connection information.

Verify the Management IP/Hostname and credentials.

 

Your help will be appreciate.

Thanks!

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Installing VCSA 6.5 error

June 14, 2017, 7:45 am
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installing VCSA 6.5, I Cant to connect for stage 2 this is the message "the installer is unable to connect the vcenter server appliance management interface vcsa 6.5" I don´t have to access for IP but DNS is ok.

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Проблема подключения SSD NVMe PCIe HGST 3.6Tb

November 27, 2017, 11:20 am
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Добрый день.

Проблема следующая: поставил ссд pcie диск (hgst HUSMR7632BHP301) в сервер (hp gen9 360), и esxi 6.5 u1 не видит как диск. Но сам диск рабочий, проверил несколькими способами.

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Windows 10 file corruption

October 29, 2017, 5:25 pm
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We created a Windows 10 1607 pool recently. If I run a /sfc scannow on the master image, it completes without errors. We created a pool of machines from this master image. Out of the blue, we have machines that are blue screening, start menu stops working, programs stops working etc... When we run sfc /scannow on the linked clones, we are finding errors. The storage is on a VNX 5300, and according to the storage group, there are no errors on the disk.


Wondering if anyone has any clue on what could be causing file corruption. We recently upgraded to 7.2.0, but the agent on this pool is still 7.0.2. The issues were happening prior to us upgrading to 7.2.0. Thanks

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Horizon 7.3.2 session take over from external access to internal

November 27, 2017, 10:16 am
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Hi,

 

actual we are using a horizon connection server to manage connections from Thin Clients to desktop vm's. The connections and there traffic are in an internal network. We are using PCoIP. The connection server is only used for session handling. The own connection is direct established between client and agent - the connection server is only for management purposes. Now i got a request to access the desktop vm's from another network. Therefore i want to use a proxy to terminate the connection and simply i don't want to route the whole internal network. Now i want to use the security server or VMware UAG. I deployed the UAG and configure the PCoIP part. Now i can use the UAG and connection server as URL in my clients. If i established a session over my connection server URL it is not possible to take over this session if i connect with the UAG URL. The message is not desktop resource is available. Our desktop pools are static (manual) pools (one user one desktop).

 

Is it possible to have an open session an take over from another connection point?

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backup virtual machine

November 23, 2017, 3:24 pm
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Running workstation version 10 on win10 host with 2 virtual guests. I have been suspending each host and copying their files to an external drive as a backup. If I lose the main guest files or they become corrupted can I start the suspended backups or do I need to shut them down and then do the backup.

 

Thanks for your help

 

Dennis

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Include VM top level folder in view/report?

September 11, 2017, 12:01 pm
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We are trying to include the TOP LEVEL folder that each VM is under, as a column in one of our report views.

 

I see that we can include the parent folder property, but we need the highest level folder, not the parent.  Any way to do this?  Super metric??

 

thanks!

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Horizon 7 Disaster Recovery Solution

November 27, 2017, 11:38 am
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Hey all,

 

I wanted to start a discussion on this and see what peoples take is one this.

 

I am starting to build out a Horizon Enterprise 7 environment and am considering a Cloud Pod Architecture or something like Zerto For DR.

 

This is in case something happens to one site i can redirect users to another site, or do a site failover w/ a DR solution. W/ Cloud pod do i have two external/internal URL's or connection servers and if one goes down everything just redirects to the other connection server? Does Cloud pod Architecture require a Load Balancer?

 

Site A : Horizon Environment

 

Site B : Horizon Environment

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New Hard disk size is limited to 15.81 TB

November 20, 2017, 12:59 pm
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Hi,

We are running Vcenter 6.0 on EXSi 6.0 Host, We are using NetApp to manage the data stores. I have created a datastore volume of 32TB and would like to assign it to one of the VMs, when i go to Vcenter webclient or even to the EXSi host which has the VM to add a Hard disk on that VM through VM settings, it is not letting me create a disk larger than 15.81 TB. can someone please provide some guidance.

 

Thanks

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VCenter 6.5 Installation Failed

November 20, 2017, 9:58 pm
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Dear All,

I have tried many times to install VMWare vCenter 6.5 but still no luck. I have tried different vcenter 6.5 version and esxi 6.5 version. DNS is working perfectly fine no issue. I have tried vCenter (VMware-VCSA-all-6.5.0-4944578) on Esxi 6.5 (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-201701001-4887370.x86_64 ) same error. I have also tried vCenter ((VMware-VCSA-all-6.5.0-4944578) on Esxi (VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.5.0.update01-5969303.x86_64). The installation stuck on 80% installing RPM. Please also find attached the VCA VM snaptshot which shows the error.  Please also find attached the log file error for more details.
The strange thing is, two months back i have successfully install the same version on another server with same specs and model but now on this server could not success. Hardware is HP ProLiant BL460c G7.
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User Limits

November 27, 2017, 7:40 am
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I am performing an upgrade from vCD / AppD to vRA 7.2... one of the many configuration items we are trying to maintain is the limit of the number of vApps (or VMs) that a user is allowed to have active (ie - turned on). I've tried to find it on a web search, and in the documentation but to no avail...

 

If anyone has any insight on how I can limit the number of active VMs in vRA 7, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Thanks,

 

Roger

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HPE patches failing to download to VUM

November 22, 2017, 8:20 am
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Using vCenter virtual machine folders in vROPs 6.1?

February 4, 2016, 11:42 am
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Has anyone figured out a way to utilize vCenter virtual machine folders in vROps 6.1.

 

I am generating reports for right-sizing and have been asked to include the workload/application owner as part of the report.  vCenter already has these workloads organized in folders so I thought it would be a no brainer...my bad :-)  They do not want to have to manually recreate all the groups in vROP.

 

When creating the view for the report, the virtual machine does not have any property indicating the relationship to the folder (like parent.cluster, parent.datacenter...).  However, under Content, Inventory Explorer, Virtual Machine Folder, it lists the folders as seen in vCenter, as well as the VMs in the group (see attached screenshot).

 

 

Any ideas if this can be done?

 

Thanks

Ron

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DeleteAccounts in CustomizationSpecs

November 27, 2017, 7:29 am
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Hi guys,

 

I am trying to understand what the property "DeleteAccounts" in a OSCustomizationSpecs really does?

 

This is my case that raises my question:

 

I do have a Windows 2012R2 template that I use to provision VM's using PowerCLI.

 

I keep bumping into the case, that the OsCustomization deletes the account I have, and creates a new one. The issue I have with that, is that I have a startup script in the Start Menu/startup folder which is then deleted.

 

I tried without the ChangeSID parameter, but according to this article, ChangeSID is actually a mandatory parameter for all Windows Server machines.

 

i was hoping that "DeleteAccounts" set to $false would not delete the existing accounts (thus, my administrator account),but apparently this is not the case. (Even though $false is the default value).

 

My main question is the following:

  1. Since it deletes my administrator account, can anyone tell me what it actually "doesn't" delete? or is this a 'feature'?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Stéphane

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Create a VM using a unattend.xml

November 27, 2017, 7:37 am
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Hi guys,

 

I have been using New-OSCustomizationSpec in order to create and simulate the creation of the Unattend.xml file until now.

 

I have faced an issue which makes me re-consider this approach, and I am asking my self it if is possible to deploy a machine based on VMTemplate using a Predefined XML.

The Idea is to dynamically create the XML structure in memory based on a template, and simply change some specefic values.

 

I bumped into this thread of VOrechestrator, which seams to do what I am thinking of doing, but I coudln't find anything similar directly with PowerCLI (Or other API calls).

 

Is there  solution for me in order to provision a VM with a paramter -UnattendFile (Or something similar?)

 

Thanks for the feedback!

 

Stéphane

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