I have a Linux virtual machine in vmware workstation that I use to run scripts to setup a USB disk as a bootable vmware installation media. This works as intended.

When I do the same via a C# Windows forms project, the kickstart scripts specified for the vmware installer seems to fail. The logs that I am supposed to fetch via KS.CFG never get fetched, %firstboot gets executed forever on every boot and none of the commands in KS.CFG ever get through. Everything else works. The VMWare installer is booted via Syslinux, it seems to install, /var/log/weasel.log reports nothing new. I am out of ideas troubleshooting what might have gone wrong. Does anyone here have any suggestions on where I should look or why running the kickstart scripts fail? I have added sleep 30 after the %firstboot directive an before running the reboot command at the end of the %firstboot section.

If I do not specify the license before the %post section, or during it, in KS.CFG I get the error “The system will operate in evaluation mode for 60 days.”

I get to specify the license with the vim-cmd vimsvc/license --set command in the %firstboot section, but then the error has already appeared. I don't want it.

How is it possible to feed the installer the ESXi license during a scripted USB install so that it doesn't complain that it is missing?

Hello.

I'm trying to do a migration from version 5.8 to 6.1, as explained, for example, in KB 2127665.

I got an error during verifying credentials for source (old, 5.8) VDP (while configuring new 6.1 appliance) :

"Source VDP and current VDP should be registered to same vCenter"

I'm only have one vCenter, what could be wrong here ?

In my company we have a VDI enviroment based on view 6.0.1, all virtual desktop are linked clone, with dedicated user assignment and persistent disk for user data folders.

My question is:

How Can I backup persistent disks, or only the data stored inside?

I've tryed with various backup solution like Veeam or Acronis, but no one can backup persistent disk.

There is an alternative? Or in which way we can backup only data stored inside persistent disk?

Thanks

Francesco

Hi,

I am doing a small deployment of vRA 6.2.2. When I am trying to install the IaaS Machine I am getting the following error and the installation fails.

2015-07-14 03 10 01 213 PM :  "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\RepoUtil.exe" Model-Install -f "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\DynamicOps.VCNSModel.dll" -s "xxxx138" -d "vCAC"  -c "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\VCNSModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 709 PM :  System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive. ---> System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 718 PM :     at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 719 PM :     --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 720 PM :     at System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 721 PM :     at System.Net.FixedSizeReader.ReadPacket(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 722 PM :     at System.Net.Security._SslStream.StartFrameHeader(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 723 PM :     at System.Net.Security._SslStream.StartReading(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 723 PM :     at System.Net.Security._SslStream.ProcessRead(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count, AsyncProtocolRequest asyncRequest)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 724 PM :     at System.Net.TlsStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 725 PM :     at System.Net.PooledStream.Read(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 726 PM :     at System.Net.Connection.SyncRead(HttpWebRequest request, Boolean userRetrievedStream, Boolean probeRead)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 727 PM :     --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 727 PM :     at System.Data.Services.Client.BatchSaveResult.BatchRequest()

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 730 PM :     at System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceContext.SaveChanges(SaveChangesOptions options)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 731 PM :     at DynamicOps.Repository.RepositoryServiceContext.SaveChanges(SaveChangesOptions options)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 732 PM :     at DynamicOps.Tools.Common.SecurityHelpers.InstallSecurityConfig(securityConfig config, String httpRootRepository)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 733 PM :     at DynamicOps.Tools.Common.ModelHelpers.InstallModel(String assemblyFileName, String securityFileName, String server, String catalog, String userName, String password, String httpRootRepository)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 738 PM :     at DynamicOps.Tools.Repoutil.Commands.ModelInstallCommand.Execute(CommandLineParser parser)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 738 PM :  Warning: Non-zero return code. Command failed.

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 793 PM :C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\DeployRepository.xml(651,5): error MSB3073: The command ""C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\RepoUtil.exe" Model-Install -f "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\DynamicOps.VCNSModel.dll" -s "xxxx138" -d "vCAC"  -c "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\VCNSModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v" exited with code 1.

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 800 PM :Done Building Project "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\DeployRepository.xml" (InstallRepoModel target(s)) -- FAILED.

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 805 PM :Build FAILED.

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 809 PM :"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\DeployRepository.xml" (InstallRepoModel target) (1) ->

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 809 PM :(InstallRepoModel target) ->

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 809 PM :  C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\DeployRepository.xml(651,5): error MSB3073: The command ""C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\RepoUtil.exe" Model-Install -f "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\DynamicOps.VCNSModel.dll" -s "xxxx138" -d "vCAC"  -c "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Server\Model Manager Data\VCNSModelSecurityConfig.xml" -v" exited with code 1.

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 817 PM :    0 Warning(s)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 817 PM :    1 Error(s)

Info : 2015-07-14 03 10 10 818 PM :Time Elapsed 00:03:26.28

The pre-requisite check is done and I have disabled the firewalls as well. Not sure where things are going wrong. Waiting for some help

Regards,

SK

Can anyone help me with this?

we are still on 5.3, but all of a sudden some users are reporting that their desktop icons etc has dissapeard.

When looking at the share, some users only have a hidden folder called something like: {d24f2895-651a-40cc-8e5c-c037b9994104}

And inside that folder is a {d24f2895-651a-40cc-8e5c-c037b9994104}.DB file and a LOCK.{d24f2895-651a-40cc-8e5c-c037b9994104} file.

That`s it

From the VMWvp_Status.txt file on the VM that the user is logged on, I cannot see any specific error messages relating to this.

It seems to be getting the policy as well, cause the log file is listing up all folders that should be excluded and such.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Hi,

We got some user profiles completely deleted over time. This happen very occasionnally, hopefully, but recently we have got a power outage that gave us the occasion to pinpoint the cause. Here how to reproduce the problem:

1-Stop sharing the Persona Management (PM) profiles shared folder (simulate network issue)

2-Login with an existing user (one with a profile already created ine the PM shared folder)

3-Renable PM shared folder

4-Logoff

Since the PM shared folder is not ready at login time, the user profile is not copy and a new empty one is created locally. When the PM shared folder becomes ready, the PM agent get access to it and create a lock file on it. When the user logoff is when the things gets bad... The agent seems mixup and delete all the user profile on the PM shared folder. The lock file stays there. The only way to recover is from backups...

How to prevent this if network issue occurs at login time? For sure we need to fix the problem on our shared folder becomes unavailable sometimes but for the moment I just want to disable PM agent if this happen at login time to prevent delete the user profile. How to tell PM agent to stop all operations IF the PM shared folder is not ready at login time?

This VMware KB seems similar but not really: User Profile content is deleted in Persona Management Share after logging in to VMware Horizon View (2082411)

Here the log attached when issue occurs.

Thanks

VMware View 5.3

Linked clones

Persona Management 5.3.1

Hi,

Is there any way to get a license for Vspehere 5.0. The license key for 6.0 does not work on 5.0. It is now counting down from the 60 days.

Thanks,

Peter

Going to do a fresh installation of vSphere 6U1 using vSCA and VUM on Windows 2012 R2. I had planned to use the vPostgres database for vCSA, and the SQL Express for VUM. But VUM release notes says that SQL Express should not be used, if you have more than 5 hosts and 50 VMs. That is exactly what we have now, and we do (of course) expect a growth with this new environment (and hardware).

So would you recommend me to stay with the Postgres database for vCSA or use the same SQL database as I will put VUM DB on?

When launching a vm, below  error  pops up shortly.

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The virtual printing feature is globally disabled on this system, and will not be en...

Virtual device 'serialO' will start disconnected.

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How to solve this?

Wireless printer

Do I need to install the printerdriver on the guest?

Do I need to tag [Enable Virtual Printer]  ?

Thanks.

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Hello,

I was using Ubntu 15.04 x64 as a host for VMware Workstation 11 Pro. It was working fine.

I upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 x64, and now Workstation doesn't open.

When I try vmware-installer:

$ vmware-installer

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "unity-gtk-module": libunity-gtk-module.so: Não é possivel abrir arquivo de objetos compartilhado: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado

(vmware-installer.py:5489): Gtk-WARNING **: Não foi possível localizar a ferramenta de temas no module_path: "murrine",

...

...

...

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: Não é possivel abrir arquivo de objetos compartilhado: Arquivo ou diretório não encontrado

$ vmware-installer -l

Product Name         Product Version    

==================== ====================

vmware-workstation   11.1.2.2780323

How to solve this issue, please ?

I'm creating two custom datacenters in vRealize Operations 6.1 Standard edition (each one consisting of two ESXi Clusters). After creation the "Health", "Risk" and "Efficency" show grey question marks as status, but the alarms are correct populated. When I log out of vRealize Operations and log in again (a little later) my custom datacenters disappeared. Does anyone have a clue how to fix this?

Thanks

Roland

We have ESXi 5.5 and Compellent SC8000.

Both storage controllers have IP-addresses on different subnet

I have two VMkernel ports on different subnets. Both on a different vSwitch.

Dell states port bindng should not be used.

When the VMkernel ports are not  added to the Networking tab of the iSCSI software adapter, the datastores are not connected. The Ip-addresses of the Compellent are added to the Discovery tab.

HBA Rescan takes 15 minutes and fails. 

What does work is this:

1 vSwitch, 2 Vmkernels in 2 IP-subnets. Add those two vmkernels to the Networking tab of the iSCSI adapter.

What is the best practice?

Any body can help me to understand the "Mount Local" option on App Volumes manager?

I want to know if I enable this option, what effect to my environment and what i can see this effect? Thanks.

Running the Horizon Client v3.5.2 x64 on Windows 10. Noticing a significant delay just turning over the login prompt for external connections and was wondering if anyone has any insight as to what is happening during that process that could result in this delay. Specifically what we are experiencing is the following:

1) Double-click the desktop shortcut for the client.

2) Double-click on a connection server target

3) The "connecting" hourglass spins briefly, then pauses, then continues spinning. Does this 3-4 times for about 30-45 seconds.

4) Users are then displayed the Security Server login prompt.

Once authenticated, users can consume virtual desktops externally without any additional issues or unreasonable delays.

Our setup is as follows:

1) Three internal-facing Connection Servers under a HWLB, dedicated for internal desktop consumption.

2) Three external-facing Connection servers + three Security Servers in a DMZ under a HWLB, dedicated for exernal desktop consumption.

3) VIP(s) on HWLB are NAT'd through the firewall. All components are otherwise assigned private IPs,

I don't have the same experience on mobile devices connecting over 3G/4G; these deliver a login prompt much quicker. I also don't have this problem on our internal clients connecting to our dedicated internal-facing CS pool.

What's even stranger to me is this: if I create an entry on my local hosts file to associate the external FQDN with the NAT'd address (the exact same one set up in DNS), then I am delivered the login prompt almost immediately. It would therefore appear as if DNS resolution is playing into the delay in some way, but I can't figure out how.

When I'm trying to increse the size of the pool via powershell comandlet, sometimes I get the following error:

PowershellService::UpdateAutomaticLinkedClonePool FAILED, error=Could not find snapshot at path <snapshoot path> for VM at <file> on vc c01f237d-3ef0-4598-b0ce-bb738a654830    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidResult: (vmware.view.pow...LinkedClonePool:UpdateAutomaticLinkedClonePool) [Updat   e-AutomaticLinkedClonePool], Exception    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PowershellService::UpdateAutomaticLinkedClonePool FAILED,vmware.view.powershell.cmdlets.   UpdateAutomaticLinkedClonePool

My command:

Update-AutomaticLinkedClonePool -pool_id $DesktopPool -maximumCount $newMaxCount -minimumCount $newMinCount -headroomCount 1

Interesting thing that I noticed is that resing pool via View Web interface allways works, even when powershell fails.

Source of the problem seems to be in the view ADAM.
If I go to the view server and open up ADAM ADSI Edit, browse to the "OU=Server Groups", select my node and look its propertis, I see that property "pae-SVIVmSnapshot" has wrong value.

Value of this property in ADAM is "/Golden-VZB2/Golden-VZB3" wheras in View web gui, dialog "Select Defsault Image" the path is set to "/Golden-VZB3" which is the correct path.

So it seems that View web GUI doesn't  use ADAM but it checks in vsphere for the certain image about actual avaliabe snapshoots.

My questions are:

Is this a bug ?

And how you are dealing with this behaviour ?

Best regards

Hi All,

I performed an in place upgrade of Horizon View 6.2 over the weekend and have been very happy with the performance and features.  However, I am having a bit of an issue with Windows 10 Enterprise.  The VDI desktop does not resize/scale as expected.  It seems that whatever the Windows 10 desktop setting is set in vSphere, seems to remain when connecting with the View Client.

I had this issue in Horizon View 6.1.1 with the 3.4 client, but didn't sweat it until this recent release.

I wanted to eliminate my Windows 10 Enterprise image as being the culprit, so I installed a fresh version of Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit with the latest VMware Tools and View Agent and the issue persists.

I am running vCenter 6.0.0.b and ESXi 6 with the latest patches.  I can validate the screen resize/scale issue occurs on multiple endpoints, so I do not believe the issue is with the endpoint device and the client.

Any ideas?

Hi all,

In the current vCenter Server Appliance (embedded Progress Database), an error is occurring every 5 minutes...

Stats insertion failed for entity esx4.localdomain.com due to ODBC error.

Performance graphs are working normally, so I don't know this is really an issue...

I have found the following kb articles, but I am not sure they are applicable for my situation.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007453

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2032300

Anyone familiar with this error? Can I safely ignore it?

Regards,

Bart

We recently upgraded to horizon 6.2 and 1.2 plugin "was" working fine... Yesterday the plugin stopped working , we can't run workflows because it can't enumerate desktop or app pools.    So I removed the delegation and Pod config to reconfigure... but..its clear that all of sudden it can't enumerate the desktop pools...   Does anyone know what "enableAntiAffinityRules' correlates to horizon pool?

InternalError: com.vmware.vdi.vcsupport.vim.vmomi.core.exception.UnmarshallException: Type 'ApplicationData' contains unrecognized property 'enableAntiAffinityRules' (Dynamic Script Module name : getAllDesktopAppPoolsInPod#9) (Dynamic Script Module name : getAllDesktopAppPoolsInPod#54)

Hey guys,

I'm a new poster to the community, althought a big reader for many years.

I have a bakery in France, and have been using a POS software for 10+ years.

The server hard drive died 2 weeks ago, thank god i had daily backups.

It was setup as following :

- windows 7 with Vmware Workstation

- a vmware image with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

- a shared folder on this image with the software in it

- both POS connect to the vmware

Up to here, i reinstalled everything and it works great, but.....

The POS software license is based on the hard drive serial number, so i'm stuck in demo mode.

I've contacted the software editor, it's been bought two times so the product is discontinued, they just cared enough to tell me : 'yeah it's possible to change it. Bye'

I am desperate as now, my cashiers write sales on paper! back to middle age...

Thanks a lot for any help you could give me.

Ben