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vSphere 6.0 - Connecting CD & USB

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We are running vSphere 6.0 in our lab (on a Windows 2012 R2 server) and have to log out and back in to get the different VMs to recognize the CD or USB devices.  While this isn't a big deal, I'd think there would be a better way to switch the devices between VMS.  Appreciate any help!

 

Kelly


Creating VM Rules

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Good Afternoon,

 

we have a host that has been problematic, we think we finally got it figured out.

Before we put it back into production, we want to setup a rule so that only a few test servers can live on it.

 

Example: I have 10 servers.

 

I want to put servers 1-4 on this host, but make sure that server 5-10 do not land on that host.

 

Thought being if the host goes belly up again, those servers can be disconnected or unavailable without us having an outage.

we have 32 hosts with HA enabled.

 

Thank You

 

Brian Dougherty

Remove unused DVuplinks for DVswitch

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i recently had a few network changes within my lab environment and i have to decrease my amount of uplink ports on my dvswitch from 7 to 4. i removed the physical nics from the dvswitch but now im left with 3 unused dvUplinks. when i try to reduce the amount of uplinks from the edit settings window on the dvswitch i get a "resource 1707 is in use on host x.x.x.x"

 

does anyone know how else i can remove the unused dvuplinks from my dvswitch.

 

6.0 vcsa, dvswitch 5.5 (didnt notice until now, will upgrade to 6.0)

can't download registered trial esxi

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VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6 License  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

Your downloads are available below

VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.7 - Binaries                                                  Manually Download
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi ISO) image (Includes VMware Tools)
2018-04-17 | 6.7.0 | 330.31 MB | iso

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I registered today to see if I can get the free 6.5/6.7 exsi.  it returned a license key and download page. but no matter what browser I use, the "Manually Download" button doesn't work.

 

how does one download if none of the "Manually Download" buttons don't work?

High availability with shared datastore

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Hello guys,

 

I have to set up 2 machine with Vmware 6 and at the same time providing high availability fot the VMs created over there, but in this my project we do not gonna use External storage, because it will use just to couple vms, and then I was searching of how to use local shared datastore, nonetheless I've read some thing regarding of VSan, but I can't understand it very well and if i would be able to set up this machine in order to share their datastore.

I've found some post, but it wasn't clear.

 

Can someone help me with that pls?

 

 

Long login times with writable enabled on Instant Clones

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Hey Folks,

 

I'm having an issue with app Vols and hope someone else has seen something similar and can help out.

 

Environment

  • ESXi 6.5
  • App Volumes 2.14
  • VMware Horizon 7.5 (Instant Clones)
  • VMware UEM 9.4
  • Windows 10 Enterprise Build 1709

 

When we have writable volumes enabled, we're seeing excessive login times upwards of 2 minutes, and get worse with subsequent logins.

 

First issue is that reviewing the svservices.log, it appears the enabling of the Windows Firewall by the App Vol agent takes an excessive amount of time. If I run the command from an elevated CMD prompt  (within the VM after it has loaded), it takes close to 50 seconds to run, but runs successfully.

 

This is an example of the firewall launch and completion times

 

[2018-09-21 22:09:27.158 UTC] [svservice:P1600:T1328] Successfully launched: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c del /q /f "C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes\Agent\Logs\cvfirewall.cfg" 2>NUL && netsh advfirewall export "C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes\Agent\Logs\cvfirewall.cfg" && netsh advfirewall import "C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes\Agent\Logs\cvfirewall.cfg" (wait -1 ms)

 

[2018-09-21 22:10:54.641 UTC] [svservice:P1600:T1328] ExitCode 0. Finished waiting for "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c del /q /f "C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes\Agent\Logs\cvfirewall.cfg" 2>NUL && netsh advfirewall export "C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes\Agent\Logs\cvfirewall.cfg" && netsh advfirewall import "C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes\Agent\Logs\cvfirewall.cfg"" (WaitStatus 0)

 

 

The second issue  I have found that if I delete the writable, and recreate it, the login time  decreases dramatically. Subsequent logins after the creation are better, but then they get increasingly worse. It's only until I delete the writable again that things get better.

 

Has anyone seen anything like this? I had opened a call with VMware support, but they havent been able to solve the problem. Any help you can provide would be much appreciated!

ESXi clean install then join cluster?

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I had a few issues upgrading a 5.1.0 ESXi host in a cluster and have not gotten much support here or from HPE since they see no hardware issues via logs I sent them to analyze, so I think I want to do a clean install of 5.5.0 pm that host, which is what I was trying to upgrade to so that we can continue to progressively upgrade our vSphere entire environment to our goal of 6.5 (highest our hardware allows).  It had 2 issues I detailed here:

 

1. Booting up, it gets stuck indefinitely on this message : 'Loading ipmi_si_drv'

2. Following the same exact procedure used to upgrade the other 3 hosts in the cluster, this 4th host fails with an error: "Cannot create a ramdisk of size 384MB to store the upgrade image".

 

 

So, I have a few question for this process:  Can I use the same Custom Build HPE 5.5.0 ISO I download, which I imported into VMware Update Manager, to perform the fresh install?  How do I rejoin the cluster it was in?  Do i need to configure network & HA/DRS settings manually or is there a way to automatically configure it to match the cluster settings when it joins?  Is there a step by step guide for doing this?

 

Current System Specs:

vCenter Server: WIndows Server

version 5.5.0 8803859

4 x ESXi Hosts in a cluster:

HPE ProLiant DL380p, 12 CPUs x 2.892GHz E5-2667

394GB RAM

Local storage: 274GB HP serial attached SCSI Disks

Shared storage: 7 x 700GB disks in a cluster (fiber)

~50+ Running VMs, balanced

**3 of the 4 hosts: ESXi 5.5.0 3568722

Remaining Host: ESXi 5.1.0 3872664

HAproxy loadbalancer and View 6.1.1

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Hi All,

 

I'm running 2 Vmware View connection servers and 2 HAproxy's (version 1.5.15)  as loadbalancer in high availability.

Are there any members on this community know how i can redirect HTTPS correct thru HAproxy ?

 

When I use the balance option : balance source

No problems what so ever, but then the load isn't shared like round robin.

 

But when i choose as balance option: round robin

we notice error upon connecting to the connection servers: Your session has expired. Please re-connect the server.

 

This is due to session sticky i can't get to work.

All I want is to redirect the traffic TCP based (straight redirection) and the connections evenly directed based like round robin.

 

The config for HTTPS in HAproxy is:

 

 

listen https ***SOME VIRTUAL IP***:443

        mode tcp

        option tcplog

        option ssl-hello-chk

        balance roundrobin stick store-request src

        stick-table type ip size 200k expire 30m

        option srvtcpka

        server SERVERNAME1 IP1:443 check

        server SERVERNAME2 IP2:443 check

 

Cant find any solution regarding HAproxy and round robin. Anyone succeeded this ?

Also posted this on HAproxy forums but was wondering had this working correct.

 

Thank you in advance,

 

Sander


NSX-V, create multipe objects via API

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Hi,

is there a way to create multiple objects like NSX Services using single POST call:

api/2.0/services/application/globalroot-0

 

by default if on body you will provide more than one entry, then only first Service is created.

I would like to have option to create many services via singe query to NSX-V.

 

thanks Maciej

 

Network Bridge Mode Not Working Windows 10 Host

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Running VMware Workstation Pro 14 (14.1.1 build-7528167). None of my guest VM's can contact my host machine, and my host machine cannot contact the guest machines. This occurs when I'm using bridged mode for the guest NIC's. Other machines on my network can contact the guest VM's and the guest VM's can contact other machines on my network; they also have Internet access. This seems to just be guest to host and host to guest communication issues. If I switch from bridged to host only or NAT it works OK. I've tried to uninstall>reboot>reinstall VMware workstation. I've tried resetting the network settings to default in the Virtual network app. I can see the VMware bridge driver on my host machines physical NIC. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it. I've turned off the firewalls on both machines.

Is there a better faster way to get guest OS counts by datacenter?

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This is what I am doing now...figured there has to be a faster way...any ideas?

 

 

$datacenters = get-datacenter | Sort-Object | select name

 

 

foreach($datacenter in $datacenters){

 

 

$datacentername = get-datacenter -name $datacenter.name | sort-object

$allvms = get-datacenter $datacentername | get-vm

 

 

Write-host "Os Full Name Counts: $datacentername"

Write-host ""

 

 

$allvms  | Get-View | Select @{Name="OS";Expression={ $_.Summary.Config.GuestFullName }} | Group OS | Sort Name | Select Name,@{Name="Total VMs";Expression={ $_.Count }}

}

Workstation VM - Attempted to Suspend, Now Everything Greyed Out

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Hello,

 

I was using a VM and tried suspended it - pressing the pause button like usual.

 

But it did not suspend and instead the yellow pause button went away, turned into a green play button and the VM is just working as usual.

 

Now everything is greyed out - the play button, the snapshot buttons, Send CTRL ALT DELETE....

 

Also under VM menu option, everything under VM -> Power and Snapshot are also greyed out.

 

What can I do - the VM is still running and I cant do anything since it is all greyed out.

 

Should I delete the contents of %appdata%\VMware folder (2 files – preferences.ini & inventory.vlms)

 

What can I do ?

 

Thank you.

 

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UPDATE:  I right clicked the taskbar VMWARE icon and said to suspend every workstation and that works.  It suspended properly and then restarted properly with no grey outs.

 

Why did this happen ?  How can I prevent this in the future ?

Horizon cloud on Azure

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I was just going through the video RDSH image preparation video in Horizon Cloud on Azure.  It's  mentioned after downloading the Windows 2012 R2 /Windows 2016 Datacenter editon from Azure Market it joins to the domain does the bootstrap  automatically after downloading the Daas Agent. 

 

Question:-

I think n Soft layer it's recommended that Image shouldn't be join to domain.  Is that some thing different here? 

 

Thanks

Venky

6.7 Network config (Port Group)

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I have 2 ports for redundancy.  Both are trunked.  I wan the standard config.

  • From a Cisco switch, should I make this a Cisco Port Group? 
  • I think VMware is handling the load balancing, so I just need to regular trunks, correct???
  • How would I configure the vSwitch?
  • Anything special if I do not want the different vlan VM's to talk to each other?

Changing Entitlement Account Number

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Need to change the entitlement account number registered with the Skyline collector.

 

How is this done?

 

Thanks.


Skyline Advisor Collectors Inactive

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I deployed Skyline appliance 1.4 and added two vCenter servers.  I am not seeing any data in the Accounts Details tab. The Collectors section with my Collector ID has a status of inactive. The appliance web portal shows all green on the system status tab.

 

Please advise. 

How do I update the underlying OS image or applications?

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everything is working nicely. i want update the base image with an update to the OS and some of the apps I installed.

whats the best way to do this?

thanks

jayesh

Fusion periodically loses mouse focus repeatedly in full screen mode

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VMWare Fusion Professional Version 10.1.3 (9472307)

Mac OS 10.12.6

 

Several times each day, my mouse cursor will change from whatever it is in Windows to the smaller black cursor that it is in the Mac OS host.  When this happens, all interaction with the VM ceases until I click.  This will repeat several times every few seconds (maybe ~2), then I'll be fine for a while.

 

Any thoughts on what it could be or how to troubleshoot?

How can I give a Network Adapter a meaningful name in VMware Workstation?

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Hi,

 

How can I give a Network Adapter a meaningful name?

 

I can't believe that you can't add and change the name of a network adaptor from it default.

 

I would like to re-name them to something like Dev1, Production1 etc....

 

Do you know of a way to do this?

 

Thanks

Unable to reconnect to VM after disconnect

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Need your expertise opinions..

 

Windows 10 with 1709 gold image

Horizon Agent 7.3.1

Horizon Client 4.6.1 and 4.7

 

Has anyone in VDI land running into this issue.  If so, what did you do fix it?

 

ISSUE:  It doesn't matter if the user just leaves them on and they time out or if they disconnect and log off. When trying to log back in they just get a black screen or an error message saying to contact the system administrator.

 

I have go into View Admin and either reset and remove the VM in order for user to get a new VM instead of re-connect back to same VM.

 

Thanks in advance..

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