Is this possible to change the Disk mode from Think Provisioning to Thin provisioning after creation and power on the Virtual machine? 

Hi,

Upgraded VM Fusion to 8.5.5 yesterday, which is running my Windows 10 VM. Windows Update also updated to Build Version 1607 (14393.953).

Now my sound device is no longer valid in Windows 10, stating no audio output device is installed. It was working before the two updates that occurred above, but I don't know which one caused it.

Reinstalled VMWare tools a couple of times, and run searches online and off the virtual VMWare Tools disc to reload the driver within Windows Device Manager, but it hasn't made any difference. Its not a killer for me, but I don't like things not working as they should.

Any helpful suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks

Graham

Running Workstation 12.5.5 under Windows 8.1.

I have recently upgraded my PC to Windows 8.1 and have found that virtual machines run very slow. Machines take a noticeably long time to draw and redraw graphics in both text and graphics modes, irregardless of whether VMware Tools is installed on the guest or not.

When running machines under Windows 7, guest performance was near enough on par to host perfomance. It can't be my hardware as far as I know, it is designed for Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10 friendly. I have run 10 previously, and as far as I know, Workstation worked fine, giving similar performance to how it was under Windows 7. I am at a loss as to how this is being caused, as well as how to fix it

Thanks

Hi All,

I got a call from a customer on Friday night, we set them up last year and have not done anything with them since. We put in a single host running 1 VM which had a web server. They had a QNAP NAS we put in and it has some file shares on it, as well as 1 x 10TB LUN. For some reason this disconnected and caused the VM to crash as the LUN was mounted as the D drive. Now I managed to get the LUN remounted under the iSCSI software adapter which is great. I tried to boot up the VM, but still no go. I then realized that I need to readd the storage that was on there. I went into storage > Add and went through the wizard. It sees the partition there, and that is 10TB with 1mb free.

Problem is that it wants to format the partition again, which is not what i need! I dont know how to just remount this storage, help would be much appreciated!

The server is running ESXi 5.5 and the VM machine is v10.

Hello,

I'm using ESXi version 6.5.0 (Build 4564106) for testing with 5 guest machines all having the same configuration running Centos 7 minimal OS with open-vm-tools installed. Starting and stopping them manually without any errors from ESXi or guest OS.

I've enabled Autostart  as seen in the following screen shoot :

The following issues were tested with and without heartbeat

First issue is when I set autostart order.

Steps taken:

1. I right click on the first guest and selected Autostart > Increase priority and got 1 on Autostart order.

2. I right click on the second guest machine and did the same steps as with the first one expecting that it will get 2 in Autostart order but got swapped with the first guest

3. I continued with the other guests expecting the same behavior as with the first 2 (swapping autostart order) but I got a normal behavior getting 3rd for the 3rd, 4th for the 4th and 5th for 5th guest.

Second issue is the fact that when the ESXi or the server is restarted the first 2 guests (the ones that swapped) are not started by the autostart with or without fixing the start order (decreasing priority on the first guest so the 1st guest is 1st in Autostart order and the 2nd is 2nd). But the other 3 guest are started as they should (respecting the order 3,4,5 waiting for delay time or heartbeat).

I also did a manual start of the first 2 guests and after that a ESXi reboot and the guests where stopped respecting the order starting with 5th guest and ending with 1st guest.

Any ideas why and how can I fix or debug this strange behavior  

Hi all,

I was wondering whether you could help, basically I want to create a Windows Server Backup simulation in VMWare Workstation for my Windows servers using a host-shared drive, the problem I have got is that I can't authenticate it using Domain Administrator as it is outside of the virtual domain, is there anyway to overcome this? Or am I best attaching an external USB storage device to my host and getting the guests to simulate it? Your help would be much appreciated.

Kind regards,

RocknRollTim

I am trying to get this script to work but it doesn't even seem close at this point.  I am looking to run a report on Powered Off VMs and information about them.  I need to be able to clean the environment and have to wait 60 days before I permanently delete anything.  Any help would be great.

Connect-VIServer -Server XXX-vcenter1 -User administrator@vsphere.local -Password XXXXXXXXXXXX

Connect-VIServer -Server XXX-vcenter1 -User administrator@vsphere.local -Password XXXXXXXXXXXX

$Report = @()

$VMs = get-vm |Where-object {$_.powerstate -eq "poweredoff"}

$Datastores = Get-Datastore | select Name, Id

$VMHosts = Get-VMHost | select Name, Parent

foreach ($vm in Get-VM){

$view = Get-View $VMs

Get-VIEvent -Entity $VMs -MaxSamples ([int]::MaxValue) |

where {$_ -is [VMware.Vim.VmPoweredOffEvent]}

Group-Object -Property {$_.Vm.Name} | %{

  $lastPO = $_.Group | Sort-Object -Property CreatedTime -Descending | Select -First 1

  $row = '' | select VMName,Powerstate,OS,Host,Cluster,Datastore,NumCPU,MemMb,DiskGb,PowerOFF

    $row.VMName = $VMs.Name

    $row.Powerstate = $VMs.Powerstate

    $row.OS = $VMs.Guest.OSFullName

    $row.Host = $VMs.host.name

    $row.Cluster = $VMs.host.Parent.Name

    $row.Datastore = ($Datastores | where {$_.ID -match (($vmview.Datastore | Select -First 1) | Select Value).Value} | Select Name).Name

    $row.NumCPU = $VMs.NumCPU

    $row.MemMb = (($VMs.MemoryMB),2)

    $row.DiskGb = ((($VMs.HardDisks | Measure-Object -Property CapacityKB -Sum).Sum * 1KB / 1GB),2)

    $row.PowerOFF = $lastPO.CreatedTime

  $report += $row

}}

$report | Sort Name | Export-Csv -Path "C:\XXXXX\Powered_Off_VMs.csv"

disconnect-viserver * -confirm:$false

I don't get an export to CSV and a display on screen of the following:

Template             : False

Key                  : 165369

ChainId              : 165369

CreatedTime          : 6/28/2016 10:19:35 AM

UserName             :

Datacenter           : VMware.Vim.DatacenterEventArgument

ComputeResource      : VMware.Vim.ComputeResourceEventArgument

Host                 : VMware.Vim.HostEventArgument

Vm                   : VMware.Vim.VmEventArgument

Ds                   :

Net                  :

Dvs                  :

FullFormattedMessage : ServerName on  XXX-prodesxi-10.xxxxx.com in ClusterName is powered off

ChangeTag            :

Hello,

after a reboot of my ESXI host i see this in my vSphere Client:

What is this?

Thanks
Dennis

Host: 16GB, 64bit, Win10Pro from Microsoft's Win10Home, 2TB SSD (60% usage)

Workstation 12.5.x (most recent version)

Just migrated from a 2TB HDD to 2TB SSD using same laptop and copied all VM folders and images from previous HDD to SSD

I expanded this VMWare Disk Size from 137.1GB to 160GB also.

I'm now getting "low memory errors" using Win7Pro

1) If RAM set =2052GB once I see the WMWare Win7Pro Desktop I immediately sequentially see

    a) Performance Options dialog box

    b) Microsoft Windows message stating: "Your computer is ow on memory.  To restore enough memory for programs to work correct, save your files and then choose or restart all open programs.".

Note: Again, I haven't done anything but enter my UserID/password and get to the Desktop

2) If RAM set =2048GB (recommended) once I see the WMWare Win7Pro Desktop I immediately sequentially see

   a) System Properties dialog box: "Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occurred with your paging file configuration when you started your computer.  The total paging file size for all disk drives may be somewhat larger than the size you specified."

Note: Previously, I've tried to delete the page file and restart my WMWare image but I still got the message.

I'm not sure where to begin.  Any suggestions appreciated.  The results from a Google search didn't suggest anything constructive.  Not sure if this issue is 'true' Windows or related to the copy from the previous HDD to my new SSD or if something was left open previously or if I need to remove a temporary VMWare file or what...

Thanks!

I want to get TrafficShapingInfo at portid's in dVS

Refer to the following

http://davidstamen.com/powercli/using-powercli-to-get-and-set-dvs-traffic-shaping-settings/

I can get TrafficShapingInfo in vDS, but not portid's

How can get all portid's TrafficShapingSettingInfo in vDS ?

Please.

Hello everybody,

After a reboot of my test environment the OSPF relationship between my Edge and LR has stopped working.

When I turn off the firewall on the Edge appliance the neigboring works. This is strange as the defaul rule for the firewall is accept all.

When the firewall is enabled the Edge sees the LR in Init/DRother mode, leading me to believe the OSPF traffic from the Edge is never leaving the appliance VM (perhaps because of some hidden egress firewall?)

Last time i solved it by redeploying the VM but that isn't really sustainable.

Has anyone seen this before and maybe found a solution?

Greetings,

Wessel Blokzijl

Hi Guys

I"m new to VDi and Horizon 7, we have a server with the following specs that we want to use to deploy Horizon 7 Instant Clones

Dell PowerEdge R730 Server – 2U Rack Mount

• 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 2.1GHz with 266GB RAM,

8 x 600GB 15K RPM SAS 12Gbps 2.5in Hotplug Hard Drive

Is this sufficient, comments/advise is highly appreciated

VMware is happy to announce the general availability of vRealize Code Stream 2.2.0 as of Jan 1, 2017.

This release of vRealize Code Stream enhances platform capabilities. It extends Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to pipeline templates, offers the ability to resume a failed pipeline execution from the point of failure, and provides support for integrating with remote jFrog Artifactory instances. It also introduces a Plug-in SDK to build custom plug-ins for vRealize Code Stream.

Resume from Failure

This feature adds the ability to resume failed pipeline executions from the point of failure onward. Failures can occur because of transient issues such as a network outage or an issue with an external system. When you resume a pipeline after correcting the underlying issue for a failed task, the pipeline keeps the context of all previously executed tasks intact and allows the same pipeline execution to resume.

Role-Based Access Control on Pipelines

The roles of Release Manager and Release Engineer are now extended to individual pipeline templates. You can optionally assign permissions on pipeline templates to restrict specific sets of users or groups to modify and trigger the pipeline templates.

Remote Artifactory Integration

Support for integration with multiple remote Artifactory instances v4.7.7 or later, which allows teams to directly integrate vRealize Code Stream with their existing Artifactory instances.

Plug-in SDK

Building plug-ins is now possible through the Plug-in SDK that is available from VMware. The Plug-in SDK provides all the necessary components that you need, including examples, documentation, and the build and packaging tools to allow you to build native plug-ins for Code Stream.

For more details, please check the release notes.

Request for evaluation copies from the vRealize Code Stream product page

For implementing vRealize Network Insight one of the requirement is that Netflow has to be enabled on vDS

Would like to know will be there be any performance issue if we enable Netflow with vDS.

Any consideration which needs to be done before enabling Netflow with vDS.

Hello everyone,

I hope that someone has come across a similar issue and I will be able to resolve the problem.

I have a VM (Windows 2008 R2 STD), 4 GB of RAM and 2 vCPUs, 2 drives (one system – 50 GB, and one swap – 8 GB). Nothing special.

The VM was restarted couple of days ago and after that I cannot get into Windows.  I get System Recovery Options box. I noticed that all drive letters are mixed up (lease see file attached).  I have tried to assign the correct drive letters using diskpart utility, but after a restart it goes back again.

I would greatly appreciate your help on the issue.

Kind Regards,

My customer has a complex Group Policy (User) configuration which contains many hundreds of settings. I am implementing VMware UEM 9.1 as part of a Horizon Enterprise solution for the customer and we are looking at planning the ADMX policies.

We want to run our policies from UEM and use conditions to target their execution and are planning the transition now. Is there a way in which I can create a new UEM ADMX policy by importing the configured settings from one or more AD Group Policy objects? Whilst possible, re-creating the policy will be painstaking and open to misconfiguration so an automated method would be our preference

Thanks
Sean

Hello

My customer uses AppV extensively on their physical desktops. I have enabled AppV integration and passed the UNC of the AppV packages share.

When I logon to a Windows 10 Horizon desktop, the AppV packages do not appear.

The AppV (integrated) client is enable when I check using "Get-AppVStatus" which returns True

The setting "UserRefresh" is True

The setting "UserRefreshonLogon" is True

The setting "GlobalRefresh" is also True

The setting "GlobalRefreshonLogon" is also True

If I execute the powershell command - "Sync-AppVPublishingServer -ServerID 1", AppV kicks into life and begins to stream apps and add them to to my StartMenu

Why is this not happening without me running the PowerShell command?

Regards,
Sean

Hi,

A customer of ours is hitting the following error in their virgo logs on their Windows vCenter running 6.0 u2a.

java.lang.Exception: A java.lang.Error occurred while executing a task

  at com.vmware.vise.util.concurrent.ExecutorUtil$3.call(ExecutorUtil.java:649)

  at com.vmware.vise.util.concurrent.ExecutorUtil$ThreadContextPropagatingCallable.call(ExecutorUtil.java:984)

  at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)

  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class java.net.DualStackPlainDatagramSocketImpl

  at java.net.DefaultDatagramSocketImplFactory.createDatagramSocketImpl(DefaultDatagramSocketImplFactory.java:137)

  at java.net.DatagramSocket.createImpl(DatagramSocket.java:336)

  at java.net.DatagramSocket.<init>(DatagramSocket.java:199)

  at com.sun.jndi.dns.DnsClient.<init>(DnsClient.java:109)

  at com.sun.jndi.dns.Resolver.<init>(Resolver.java:61)

  at com.sun.jndi.dns.DnsContext.getResolver(DnsContext.java:570)

  at com.sun.jndi.dns.DnsContext.c_getAttributes(DnsContext.java:430)

  at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.ComponentDirContext.p_getAttributes(ComponentDirContext.java:231)

  at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContext.getAttributes(PartialCompositeDirContext.java:139)

  at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContext.getAttributes(PartialCompositeDirContext.java:127)

  at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.getAttributes(InitialDirContext.java:142)

This is not an issue on other installations of the same build running against a u2a system so we're at a loss as to why this is happening. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Pete

Hello, guys.

I have recently installed Windows 98 here in my VMWare Player version 6.0. However, while installing the said operating system, this "download the VMWare Tools for Windows 95, 98, Me, NT" notification pops up.I tried to download the said feature, but it keeps on getting me an error, with no specified reason...

"Install of VMware Tools for Windows 95, 98, Me and NT failed. Contact VMware Support or your system administrator."

This keeps on going on even when Windows 98 has been completely installed. Even though I clicked Manage> Install VMWare Tools, it keeps on receiving the same error. It's beginning to get in my nerves... If you have any idea, please let me know, otherwise, I will have to uninstall VMWare instead.

I'm sorry for being a little harsh, but I want to enjoy more nostalgia when using Windows 98...

Thank you for your time.

I am very new to VRA been using it and vRO for only a couple of weeks.  I am trying to come up with a way to designate a new request or a machine provisioned through vRA in MS Active Directory.   I have an application that will scan almost anything in AD OU, Attribute, Part of the name and import it into the application. I just need a way to designate it from the rest. 

We have discussed the following and keep getting roadblocks.

SCAN OU

In my blueprint I have a dropdown that lets the user select the OU to place the machine in.  So a new provisioned VM goes into a OU, but there are other computer accounts in that OU and I do not want all of them to be imported.

The only thing I can think of would be to have vRA add a custom attribute to the VM.  I do not even know how to start this.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Shaft