When trying to add a new cluster I get the following error message:
A general system error occurred: Error at bora/vpx/drs/algo/drmUtil.cpp:1113
Does anyone have any tips on what might be the cause?
vCenter Sever Appliance is at version 6.5.0.5500
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Create New Cluster failes with error
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Ceph ISCSI issue
Hay All
i have had an Ceph cluster going for a few months, with iscsi servers that are linked to Ceph by RBD.
All of an sudden i am starting the ESXI server will louse the isscsi data store (disk space goes to 0 B) and i only fix this by restarting iscsi target or rebooting the ISCSI server.
When checking syslogs on the iscsi server i get a loads of errors like
SENDING TMR_TASK_DOES_NOT_EXIST for ref_tag: XXXX
like 100+ lines
also wen checking the ESXI server logs i see server taken the ISCSI as offline, while reading the Ceph guides they advised that, if esxi server does not get an ok message with in 5 seconds on a 5MB IO, it starting to recover and in turn cause the issue we see in syslogs on the iscsi server.
Is there any setting in esxi or vspear i can use to change this setting or make it less prone to fail.
thanks
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vmware fusion 10.0.1 on macOS 10.13.1 not showing content of VMware Shared Folders
Did enable a shared folder with Read & Write. As soon as I set that up "VMware Shared Folders" showed up on the vms desktop. But the shared folder is not displayed inside of that folder. This is really odd since in other vms this works as expected.
What can I do, to make this work as expected?
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Hide Blueprint options and set defaults for AWS Instance
Hi,
We are trying to set defaults for the AWS instance Blueprint deployment. Is there any way to hide items such as the provision into , location and setting defaults. I understand we can create a XAAS blueprint and do a workflow that does a catalog request, but that seems like such a roundabout way to do something to help simplify the provisioning workflow and make it useable for business users.
Hi
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Connect automatically an external usb device when a VM is started
Hello there,
I have a VM that has needs to connect to an external USB device when is started but to do so I have to manually connect the device using the settings menu every time, do you know if there is a way that I can connect the usb device automatically when the VM is started? There is any command line that can make this job happen?
Thanks in advance.
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vRNI Cluster Recovery
Hi All,
Just couple questions about clustering and availability. I am unable to get a clear answer from the documentation.
When a cluster is created, the first Platform VM becomes Platform1 VM, and this is the management point for the entire cluster, and losing Platform1 leads to data loss and the entire cluster becoming unavailable.
My questions are:
- in the even of losing Platform1, Can you promote another platform VM to become Platform1? Or would you have to rebuilt the entire cluster including the proxies?
- Can the proxy vm be paired with another platform1 vm or would you have to redeploy the proxy and recollect all data again?
- What happens if you lose non platform1 vm? Do you deploy another platform vm and add it to the cluster?
Please provide as much detail as possible, the more technical the better.
Thanks
vfk
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ESXI - VMware vSphere 6 Enterprise Plus - No detecta HDD
Estimados buenos dias, les comento que yo trabajo en una empresa como encargado IT, y estoy teniendo problemas con el servidor ESXI - VMware vSphere 6 Enterprise Plus, que esta montado en un Server HP Raline, el tema es que hay dos slots que no me reconoce los HDD, ya los he cambiado y no he logrado que los detecte... No tengo mucha experiencia con estos servidores, por eso les consulto, ¿cual podria ser el problema?, Les adjunto imagenes, tal vez puedan detectar cual es el problema, muchas gracias de ante mano!
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Powershell Script to take VM Snapshot on scheduled time
Hi Team,
I need PS script to take snapshot about 42 VMs with memory. 25vms are located in one VC, and others are located in different VCs with respect to data center location.
While executing below PS i am getting error. Can anybody please help me on this.
$vc = Read-Host "vCenter Server Name"
$crediantial = Get-Credential
Connect-VIServer $vc -Credential $crediantial
$vmlist = Get-Content <VM Path>
foreach ($vm in $vmlist)
{
New-Snapshot -VM $vm -Name <Snapshot name> -Description '<Descri+'%%date'>' -Quiesce -Memory
}
Disconnect-VIServer -Server $vc
Regards
Ganesh Shastri.
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Skype for business conversation delay - horizon view 7.3.2
Hi, I've got a strange problem with a customer. I've deployed a VDI enviroment with horizon view 7.3.2 (esxi 6.5) installed and skype for business on the win 10 1703 CBB vms (teradici audio driver installed).
when the user receive a call trought the software he can't ear or speak for the initials 5-6 seconds, after that time the converstation works good.
we've tried to use a teradici zero client (pcoip without s4b optimization) and a windows 10 pc as a client (with s4b optimization enabled).
If the customer starts the conversation doesn't have the initial delay and the audio works immediately.
if we use s4b from a traditional pc (no vdi) everything works correctly.
any suggestions?
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VMware Esxi 6.0 with VM v 11 and PCI Passthrough high CPU usage
So according to VMware Knowledge Base it is no longer required for VMs v 11 to have phiHole settings.Problem is that as soon as I add a pci passthrough device (an onboard USB hub), the vmx gets a pciHole.dynStart setting. I manually remove it, start the VM and seconds later, the setting appears back in the vmx.
The big problem is that my VM has a high CPU (close to 100%), even if I use a clean Win7 or even a clean WinXP SP3 (clean as in nothing on it, clean install)
According to sysinternals process explorer, it's the interrupts that actually consume the cpu.
(I'm using vspahere client 6.0 if it matters)
Any ideas how to cure this?
Thanks.
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new-tagassignment value cannot be null
Hi everyone,
so I am trying to simply add a tag to a series of machines. I have the tag and a vm name in a CSV. every time I run my script my output says value cannot be null. what am i doing wrong.
thanks in advance for everyone help.
myCSV data example
tag,name
1,"windows 2016"
1,"windows 2012r2"
my Script
Import-Csv -Path c:\users\name\Documents\tags.csv -UseCulture | %{
#setting variable for name from CSV
$name = $_.Name
#setting variable for tag from CSV
$tags = $_.tag
#used to test that the variables are read into memory,
#$tags
#$name
#trying to add VM name and add a tags
Get-VM -Name $name | New-TagAssignment -Tag $tags -Confirm:$false
#a different way of doing it and it did not work either
#New-TagAssignment -Tag $tags -Entity (Get-Inventory -Name $_.Name)
MY Output
New-TagAssignment : 10/3/2017 2:48:30 PM New-TagAssignment Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: collection
At C:\Users\name\Desktop\add-tags.ps1:6 char:22
+ Get-VM -Name $name | New-TagAssignment -Tag $tags -Confirm:$false
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [New-TagAssignment], VimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.Tagging.NewTag
Assignment
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CentOS virtuel
bonjour,
je viens d'acquérir un PC sous Windows 10 et je voudrais installer Cent0S sur une machine virtuelle .
est ce possible avec vSphere Hypervisor ? est ce totalement gratuit?
merci
T.
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All Variables are not getting stored in Array
Hi All,
I have to extract first 5 Characters to segregate team wise report.
EX:
setdc01
setdc02
setdc03
setab01
setab02
setab03
setab04
I would like to achieve the below output.
Name Count
-------- --------
setdc 3
setab 4
I have written below script.
$vmnames = get-vm
$vmname = $vmnames.name.substring(0,5) | group | select Name,Count
foreach($v in $vmname){
$vmcount = $v.count
$vmad = @()
$vmd = "" | select "VM Name","VMs Count"
$vmd."VM Name" = $v.name
$vmd."VMs Count" = $vmcount
$vmad += $vmd
}
$vmad
I am getting only last VM count not all.
Output is:
Name Count
-------- ---------
setab 4
Problem is it is not showing for setdc
Am I missing something while storing data in an array?
Can some one help me to get the exact output.
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Interesting couple issues migrating from 6.0 to 6.5 vcsa
I have just finished a successful migration from 6.0 to 6.5 (with NSX 6.3), ran into a couple interesting hiccups along the way, thought i would share.
(i upgraded the NSX components to the 6.3 release prior to the vcenter update, with no really big issues)
So i have an external PSC running on a VCSA, and two vcenter servers. had one vcsa vcenter, and one windows vcenter server (original).
per upgrade recommendations, did the PSC first using the upgrade option on the iso.. this one worked without issue.
next i did the VCSA vcenter appliance, which was running 6.0.
ran into an issue when trying to run the upgrader.
during the upgrade process (step 3) it asks you for your administrator@vsphere.local credentials, the fqdn of your appliance, and the host on which it resides.
couldn't get past this screen, encountering a credential error (Invalid appliance (OS) root password).
looking at the log files, found the following error:
initiateFileTransferFromGuest error: ServerFaultCode: Failed to authenticate with the guest operating system using the supplied credentials.
this was strange, as all authentication credentials were valid. much googling and no good results. logged into the vcsa management ui, and changed the root password to a less complex password, but same issue.
I then tried to set the root password to the same password (a rather complex one) that my admin@vs.local account used. the GUI crapped on this and wouldn't change.
logged into the vcsa via ssh, shell, and changed the root password via command line to match the admin@vs.local password.
after that change, the updater successfully logged on and i was able to continue the upgrade.
the rest of the upgrade for that appliance went smooth. (I do have a separate root password from admin@vsphere.local, and still used a separate root password when prompted for it in the upgrade process.. it just appears that when connecting to the appliance that needs to be updated, they need to be the same)
Success.
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On to the windows vcenter box.
this time we are using the "migrate" option to go from windows to vcsa. first have to run the migration assistant on the windows box, and change one local security policy.. all pretty easy.
(remember if you are mounting the iso via local vsphere client, login to the host directly, not through the vcenter server you are migrating / taking offline.. oops)
migration steps all went well.. got into the 6.5 interface and something really weird..
So a few months ago, after updating some naming conventions in my environment, I changed some of the esxi host names (using vmware published procedures).. I think it was via a disconnect / reconnect and specifying a new name on the reconnect. End result was in my 6.0 environment, some of my hosts had lived through a name change, and some had their "new" names from day 1.
after the migration, the "new" hosts were fine, but the hosts that had their names changed in the past had imported into the 6.5 environment under their OLD names.. (which is kinda problematic, as the host doesn't know it's old name anymore). It was really weird, the hosts were half connected, but couldn't establish an HA group (cause vcenter couln't contact the hosts - trying via their old names). I disconnected and attempted to reconnect one, but in 6.5 you cannot change the name this way anymore. I also could not reconnect, as the SSL certs didn't match the names.
End result.. shut down the new 6.5, restored my 6.0 windows machine, and reconnected via the 6.0 vcenter.
Once my clusters were all online and connected normally again, opened a ticket to try and figure out WHY.
TL;DR: in vcenter database, vpx_host table had new correct host names, but VPX_ENTITY table had old names. (all other tables reference objects by their ID, vpx_entity was the only table where the hosts were specifically named outside of the vpx_host table, which had their DNS name)..
We (support and I) removed a renamed host from a cluster and added it back in, confirming that it updated the entries in the tables (well it actually removed and created new entries) - this of course also has the adverse affect of killing all historic info for that host, as it's ID has changed.
The official line from support was to remove and re-add all the renamed hosts to correct the database, then to reimport.
Being the rebel that I am... I just updated the entries in the VPX_ENTITY table to reflect the new names, then ran the migrate process again to a new vcsa.
After this second migration process, all my hosts are looking good in 6.5, talking to vcenter, and they all have their correct names.
Now on to the fun and exciting process of updating all the hosts to 6.5 as well!
Jared
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vsphere web client
I want to open Vsphere web client for managing esx servers
i have this problem with firefox and explorer
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capturing the vmware vsphere web client crash and emailing
Hi
I am trying to capture when vsphere web client service stops and email me to alert me.
(Obviously fixing the issue is better than just alerting, but alerting is my first step)
I've set up powershell to email me changes to the vsphere client, but that is set up on the recovery tab of the service.. and can't be tested.
I've also set up an event id trigger for service control manager event ID 7036 but it's not granular enough for just the vsphere client .
Can anyone please help?
John
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How secure would a Windows XP guest with host-only networking be?
My interpretation of the documentation is that such a VM would be as secure as one having no network adapter at all, but it doesn't hurt to double check to make sure I'm not somehow exposing the host/other guests/etc. to threats without being aware of it...
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Error Calling Open SSL tools - vRA 7.3
Hi
I am receiving the error message right after fresh Distributed installation.
Once login to vRA appliance --> vRA settings--> Ceritificates tab
below error received.
"Error calling Open SSL tools"
Screen shot attached. Self signed certificate is generated. This error occurs before any configuration done.
Unable to find any solution in the forums. Pls help if anybody encountered such issues and resolved.
-Umesh
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Adding Horizon Hostname
We have created a dev environment using VIO 3.1 and NSX 6.3.1 and all works well however due to the fact the during deployment we did not assign a VIP hostname so horizon is only accessible via the public IP and not any hostname as none was assigned.
How do we assign a hostname so that horizon can be accessed via public hostname and what needs to be done to use SSL both in horizon and noVNC ? There are multiple apache2 configu file and we are not sure what to change.
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Alarm triggered "Virtual SAN Health Alarm 'Memory pools (heaps)'"
Good Day,
I received the following alarm 2 days in a row for the a 4 node vxrail cluster. I was wondering what it means and any info that would point to what is going on.
Virtual SAN Health Alarm 'Memory pools (heaps)'
thank you
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