Working on the NAS 5.5 certification with Workbench 3.0.2.  The HA_DRS test fails stating "Failed to get snapshots for ESXiA-VM2-win-bus." for all 8 VMs that are fall under that test. I went over the run.log and found that while it appears the 'createsnap' command appears to succeed in the logs, there is no corresponding activity on the VM tasks. i.e no snapshot is being created.   Log trimmed to a single VM for brevity:

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:56 : VM        ] [0] INFO: Send create snapshot (snap-hadrs) command to ESXiA-VM2-win-bus...

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:56 : VMSTAF    ] [0] DEBUG: Submitting the following STAF command <192.168.2.42 process start shell command "staf local VTAF_VM createsnap snapname snap-hadrs anchor vsphere.imd.local:vsphere.local\administrator vm ESXiA-VM2-win-bus memory">

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:56 : VMSTAF    ] [0] DEBUG: Command: staf 192.168.2.42 process start shell command "staf local VTAF_VM createsnap snapname snap-hadrs anchor vsphere.imd.local:vsphere.local\administrator vm ESXiA-VM2-win-bus memory"

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:56 : VMSTAF    ] [0] DEBUG: RC: 0

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:56 : VMSTAF    ] [0] DEBUG: Result: $VAR1 = '3718';

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:56 : VMSTAF    ] [0] INFO: VM : Sent createsnap command.

One second later, it checks for a task and doesn't find one.

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : HADRS     ] [0] INFO:

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : HADRS     ] [0] INFO:

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : HADRS     ] [0] INFO: Wait for create snapshot task to complete on all the VMs...

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : HADRS     ] [0] INFO:

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VC        ] [0] INFO:

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VC        ] [0] INFO: Wait for tasks to complete on the VMs...

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VC        ] [0] INFO: Wait for task to complete on ESXiA-VM2-win-bus...

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VMSTAF    ] [0] DEBUG: Submitting the following STAF command <local VTAF_VM getactivetask anchor vsphere.imd.local:vsphere.local\administrator vm ESXiA-VM2-win-bus>

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VMSTAF    ] [0] DEBUG: Command: staf local VTAF_VM getactivetask anchor vsphere.imd.local:vsphere.local\administrator vm ESXiA-VM2-win-bus

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VMSTAF    ] [0] DEBUG: RC: 0

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VMSTAF    ] [0] DEBUG: Result: $VAR1 = 'No active task running';

<remaining vms trimmed>

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VMSTAF    ] [0] INFO: VC : Captured getactivetask output on ESXiA-VM2-win-bus.

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VC        ] [0] INFO: No active task running on ESXiA-VM2-win-bus.

<remaining vms trimmed>

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VM        ] [0] INFO: Verify create snapshot tasks completed successfully.

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VM        ] [0] INFO:

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VM        ] [0] INFO: Get list of snapshots on ESXiA-VM2-win-bus...

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VMSTAF    ] [0] DEBUG: Submitting the following STAF command <local VTAF_VM getsnapshotinfo anchor vsphere.imd.local:vsphere.local\administrator vm ESXiA-VM2-win-bus>

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VMSTAF    ] [0] DEBUG: Command: staf local VTAF_VM getsnapshotinfo anchor vsphere.imd.local:vsphere.local\administrator vm ESXiA-VM2-win-bus

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VMSTAF    ] [0] DEBUG: RC: 0

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VMSTAF    ] [0] DEBUG: Result: $VAR1 = {

          'reqIdStr' => 'local://local:vtaf_vm:27654',

          'errDesc' => undef,

          'rootCause' => undef,

          'endTime' => '08/24/2015 08:41:08 PM',

          'errMsg' => undef,

          'exception' => undef,

          'rootException' => undef,

          'stkTrace' => undef,

          'startTime' => '08/24/2015 08:41:08 PM',

          'dbgInfo' => undef,

          'result' => undef

        };

<remaining vms trimmed>

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VMSTAF    ] [0] INFO: VM : The getsnapshotinfo command completed.

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VM        ] [0] INFO: VM ESXiA-VM2-win-bus does not have any snapshots

[Oct  8 2015 15:56:57 : VM        ] [0] ERROR: Failed to get snapshots for ESXiA-VM2-win-bus.

I've confirmed that I can take manual snaps of these VMs and a corresponding task appears. I remove all the snaps afterwards.   Any guidance on how to troubleshoot further?  I appreciate your time and assistance

What are my options for enabling vMotion with local storage with vSphere 6.0 ? I only have 2 servers, so Virtual SAN is not an option.

I'm working on NAS certification for 5.5 using workbench 3.0.2. The 'Configuration', 'Verify', and 'Collect Storage Information' tests all run and pass normally. All remaining tests (Data Integrity, Failover, Functional, and NAS) pass, but never complete.

I found this discussion (https://communities.vmware.com/thread/463654) which seemed to mirror my experiences, but waiver 292 was not available in my list of waivers. That post being nearly two years old I suspected that either that specific issue was fixed or supplanted by a new waiver.

I have applied waiver 573: "[Storage] Test does not exit after Test completion and Abort session doesn't work." as well as 459: "NAS storage cert test list inadvertently include SP Reset test", but am at a bit of the loss as the behavior still exists preventing me from running a full run of all of the tests. Does anyone have any guidance on how to proceed? Happy to provide any other details needed. Thank you for your time and assistance.

When I attempt to connect to my hosts from my primary subnet, I get the following error:

vSphere and ESXI are both on 5.1

When I switch to a different subnet I am able to connect to my hosts. I do not have this problem with vCenter.

I'm working on NAS certification for 5.5 using workbench 3.0.2. I'm having trouble with the NFSClient_NFSMount_Unmount test. I've tried the following:

* Running it "normally" (starting the tests and walking away) - This gets to the portion where iometer starts, but the gui does not.  I read back through part of the Storage Cert Guide and found the same instructions listed in the answer from this article:  Re: VMFS Spanning test questions

I aborted this test run as the document says to do these steps before beginning.

* I followed those steps (killed stafproc and the schtask, spawned startstafproc.bat) and started the test run. Everything ran fine until the test plan rebooted all the VMs and (because the instructions tell you to remove the schtask) STAF doesn't start onboot and the test fails due to communication failure.

* Next, I tried killing stafproc, leaving the schtask, and starting startstafproc.bat so that staf would exist after the VMs rebooted. It did, but I was faced again with the problem of iometer running under the system account with no gui. To try to work around this, I killed stafproc, started startstafproc.bat which spawned and ran the desired iometer job for 3 minutes, but workbench continued to complain about the iometer.exe proc still running under the system account so I taskkill'd those on each of the vms. This process seemed to work fine until it reached the end of the first iteration. 

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : HOST      ] [0] INFO:

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : HOST      ] [0] INFO: 8 of 8 Iometer tests passed.

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : VMIO      ] [0] INFO:

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : VMIO      ] [0] INFO: VM I/O Results:

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : VMIO      ] [0] INFO: 'iometer' Result:.............Pass (8 of 8 Pass)

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : VMIO      ] [0] INFO: IO tests completed successfully on the VMs

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : MOUNT     ] [0] INFO: I/O test passed on all VMs.

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : MOUNT     ] [0] INFO:

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : MOUNT     ] [0] INFO: Completed mount iteration 1 of 4 after 11609 seconds.

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : MOUNT     ] [0] INFO:

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : MOUNT     ] [0] INFO:

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : MOUNT     ] [0] INFO: Perform 2 out of 4 iterations...

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : MOUNT     ] [0] INFO:

[Nov  3 2015 14:25:41 : MOUNT     ] [0] INFO: Sleep for 30 seconds before VMs poweroff...

[Nov  3 2015 14:26:11 : VMSTAF    ] [0] DEBUG: Submitting the following STAF command <local VTAF_VM poweroffvmlist anchor vsphere.imd.local:administrator@vsphere.local vms ESXiA-VM2-win-bus,ESXiA-VM3-win-lsi,ESXiA-VM4-win-pvs,ESXiB-VM10-win-bus,ESXiB-VM11-win-lsi,ESXiB-VM12-win-pvs,ESXiB-VM9-win-lsi,esxiavm1winlsi>

 

I could see that the corresponding VMs were powered off in vcenter, but the workbench testing hung after this. I let it sit for a couple hours with no change. I eventually killed the test run and am cleaning up the vmdks it left behind before I attempt another test run.  Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Hello,

Does anyone know where I can go to disable the multiple monitor feature on the Horizon View Client v.3.5?

I would like to have the view client operate in single monitor mode by default if possible.  I would assume this is a registry setting somewhere but cannot seem to find the confirmation on my own.

Hey,

I've a hard fight with the new EUC Access Point.

I have imported the appliance to my vSphere 5.5 environment in various ways and configurations (single NIC, 3 NIC, with and w/o Horizon config) already and followed all steps outlined in the admin guide. Unfortunately I always get the same result. The appliance is booting fine, but refusing every network connection (https & ssh). When I logon to the console I can see the gateway user is running 3 processes called java, of which one consumes 100% CPU (it's actually 200% b/c 2 CPUs). From the appliance I can ping all backend systems and DNS resolution works.

Unfortunately I also did not manage to make the appliance send any message to my Solarwinds Kiwi Syslog server. So I'm flying blind right now.

What am I missing?

Anyone seen this before?

Is there a video or step by step guide I could follow to make sure I'm not doing anything stupid?

Thanks.

Installing the HP ESXi5.5 September 2015 image to new HP DL360 Gen9 server

The installer picks up the 8GB SD as 7.42GB drive.  but after hitting F11 for install, it pauses at 5% and throws an error (see attached)

Google doesn't show much on this other than a possible scratch partition warning that shouldn't stop the install. 

HP Support was initially engaged because the server wasn't picking up the internal MicroSD.  iLO was updated to the latest and recommended vmware support for this install error.

I'd rather not install on the HDD's as we will be using them for a VDP appliance that will be installed here on the host.

Any input or anyone with thoughts on a resolution is appreciated

I tried everything I found in communities but still getting this errors.

Can anyone point me some hints?

Thanks

I am attempting to send the requestNumber property to a VCO workflow.  Should I just surround the requestNumber attributes in quotes in VCAC designer?  I am not foreign to sending VCAC props to VCO.  I am sending over "__api.request.id", but trying to figure out what that references.  I am trying to get the catalog request information.  I want to be able to query by the requestNumber to check up on the request passed to VCO.  I am not using ASD.

Thank you

HP Microserver G8, процессор 1220LV2, память 16gb.
В корзине 4х4Tb WD40EFRX , в отсеке ODD - 180gb Intel SSD 530.
Режим работы контроллера перевел в AHCI. Все четыре харда хочу использовать под хранилище,
пробросив их в виртуалку через RDM.
На MicroSD установил ESXi 6 сборку для серверов HP.
Вкачестве DataStore выбрал SSD. Пробросил все 4-терабайтники (wd1.vmdk-wd4.vmdk), создал виртуалку на Debian7x64, подключил
проброшенные харды на новый scsi1 контроллер. Но машина не стартует, выдает ошибку:
  
Failed to start the virtual machine.
Module DiskEarly power on failed. 
Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/562fad39-ee2c7a4c-9be4-d0bf9c461484/RDM/wd3.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. 

Диск, с которым происходит конфликт может меняться после рестарта сервера.
Никаких файлов и папок .lck в каталоге с виртуалкой нет.

в логе вот это:

2015-11-02T20:30:55.771Z| Worker#3| I120: OBJLIB-FILEBE : FileBEOpen: can't open '/vmfs/volumes/562fad39-ee2c7a4c-9be4-d0bf9c461484/RDM/wd3-rdmp.vmdk' : Failed to lock the file (262146).
2015-11-02T20:30:55.771Z| Worker#3| I120: DISKLIB-VMFS  : "/vmfs/volumes/562fad39-ee2c7a4c-9be4-d0bf9c461484/RDM/wd3-rdmp.vmdk" : failed to open (Failed to lock the file): ObjLib_Open failed. Type 10
2015-11-02T20:30:55.771Z| Worker#3| I120: DISKLIB-LINK  : "/vmfs/volumes/562fad39-ee2c7a4c-9be4-d0bf9c461484/RDM/wd3.vmdk" : failed to open (Failed to lock the file).  
2015-11-02T20:30:55.771Z| Worker#3| I120: DISKLIB-CHAIN : "/vmfs/volumes/562fad39-ee2c7a4c-9be4-d0bf9c461484/RDM/wd3.vmdk" : failed to open (Failed to lock the file).
2015-11-02T20:30:55.771Z| Worker#3| I120: DISKLIB-LIB   : Failed to open '/vmfs/volumes/562fad39-ee2c7a4c-9be4-d0bf9c461484/RDM/wd3.vmdk' with flags 0xa Failed to lock the file (16392).
2015-11-02T20:30:55.771Z| Worker#3| I120: DISK: Cannot open disk "/vmfs/volumes/562fad39-ee2c7a4c-9be4-d0bf9c461484/RDM/wd3.vmdk": Failed to lock the file (16392).

Похоже, что проблема в обращениях к дискам сервисов hpHelper-main и smartd. Как это можно победить?

I am curious if anyone has made a script that would produce a report with all the settings for all the VM's in a cluster/host, etc.  I would need every setting (datastore (full path) VM hardware version, CPU, memory, etc.) needed to recreate a new VM but point it back to the original VM's disks).  I would prefer the report to be in CSV format.  Is there anything like this out there?

Thank you for any help.

Sean

I need to push VMware-VMRC-7.-0.1.msi to a number of users, preferably without user input. What are the installation switches / properties I'm allowed to modify? I don't want checkboxes like "Check for product updates on startup" selected on startup. Thank you.

Has anyone seen this message before? I just started getting in when I try to build machines at our California vCenter from our Dallas vCAC. This happens during the provisioning state and is caught on a "vim3WaitToolsStarted" Action. Is it timing out due to latency perhaps? It gets past building stage and the name is set fine.

Edit: I can build local machines just fine. It's only when building machines in California that I get this error.

Edit2:  I'm noticing that VC:VirtualMachine is saying "Not Set" while the others such as vCAC:VirtualMachine show the vm name. The vim3Waittoolsstarted action requires VC:VirtualMachine. I have no idea why vCAC wouldn't pass this info for one set of machines vs. another??

Hello VMware Community, 

I need help with P2V Conversion.

I am running VCenter Converter Standalone 6.0 on My admin Windows 7 64 bit PC which is aVirtual machine.  I am trying to convert a Physical machine on the Network.  This PC is Windows 7 32 bit. I have done the following.

1. Disable UAC

2. Disable Firewall

3. Create a QWORD (64-bit) called LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy, that worked for me when the DWORD would not allow access to my 64-bit machine. Set to 1 (number one).

4. Tried to Run VCenter in Administrator Mode

5. Verified under gpedit.msc that User Account Control: Run all administrator in admin approval mode is disabled.

The agent does install on the physical computer but I get the error of " Unable to obtain hardware information for selected machine."   I removed the agent and tried to install the Converter locally on the physical machine and got the same error when trying to convert.  I have also used 5.5.3 which gave the same error as well in both scenarios.

Attached are the log files.  Please help.

Hi, in View Administrator, in the Sessions tab, there is a Client ID column. Where is this ID pulled from on the client machine? I configured a Linux machine with the VMware Horizon client installed, and cloned it with Clonezilla. This results in a duplicate VMware client ID, which prevents the same user from launching multiple sessions to the same pool. I'd like to know which file to modify on the client machine to set a unique client ID.

I know in older versions the client ID was the same as the mac address, but that does not seem to be the case anymore.

Thanks

Hello,

I have configured the vRealize Orchestrator appliance and added the vCenter Server to the Orchestrator server through the vRO client -> Library, and can successfully run workflows against objects in vCenter. So vRO is working.

BUT

The problem I'm having is that I can't seem to add the vRO server to the vSphere Web Client. I do see the plugin though, and when I go to the Orchestrator plugin I see the vCenter Server in the "vCO Home' tab but "N/A" under "Managed by vCenter Orchestrator Server". Also under "Inventory Lists" it says "vCO Servers: 0". What am I missing?

I have tried adding the new vRO server (appliance) by editing the vCenter object and input the new vRO server IP. But "Test Connection" fails every time.

Also, vCO was installed together with vCenter initially but never used, and still not used. But I don't think that would make any difference.

I also don't see the vCenter plugin tab in the left menu when connecting to vRO with the client and com.vmware.vco isn't showing in /mob.

Versions:

vCenter: 5.5u2

vRO: 6.0.3.0 build 3000579

Thanks!

Hello,

I just wanted to share an issue I experienced with app volumes causing data loss on a persistent desktop last week.

I had deployed SQL management studio to 100 persistent developer desktops running win7sp1 and app volumes 2.7.

I started receiving calls stating files where missing and performance was very slow.

Upon investigation I found I could recreate the issue by creating folders on the root of c: then remove the assigned app stack. This would cause the new folders/files to disappear. Not good when most of your developers keep source code on the root of c: and their local SQL express databases disappear.

After rolling everything back by removing the app stack and disabling the agent this also caused any new files created after deploying app stack to be removed.Similar to reverting a snapshot.

I was burned big time by this product....

I set up a WebEx and demonstrated the issue to an app volumes tech support VMware engineer. Rolling back the agent to 2.5.2 did not help.

The case has been escalated.

My advice be very careful deploying this product on a persistent desktop.

Starting VMfusion 7, receiving a VMX file corrupt error. I have read a few solutions online but menus are different and I can't seem to follow the repair. Is there someone that can assist me? I attached the VMX log file as well.

I am using Fusion 8.0.1 on a Macbook Pro OS X 10.10.4, running a Windows 10 guest + 2 external monitors connected to thunderbolt ports.

When I set Use All Displays in Full Screen mode, the Windows 10 guest sees all 3 monitors (2 external monitors + Macbook's screen). However, what I want is only allowing the 2 external monitors to be used by the Windows 10 guest. In Windows 10 guest, I select the Macbook screen and click 'Disconnect display' but it doesn't work and all 3 displays are still shown in the guest OS.

Is there an option in Fusion to only allow external monitors to be sent to the guest, or to exclude the Macbook's screen?

If Fusion can't do this, is there a way in Windows 10 to exclude the Macbook screen?