Hi, Everyone.

I am trying to capture an app layer of a basic Adobe CC suite installation - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat - and encountering serialization issues.  I wonder if there is anyone out there who can provide some pointers on how to perform this process correctly - maybe through a post script??

The installation package was created using the Creative Cloud Packager utility.  Using this utility, you are able to embed the serialization/license information.  We tested the installation package and validated that it was doing what it is supposed to prior to attempting to capture this into an App Layer in Mirage.

Here is our workflow:

- We started with a VM with a base install of Win10Enterprise and started the pre-installation capture process.

- We then installed the Adobe package and ran all the apps within it to ensure that they were working.

- Rebooted the VM and ran all the applications again.

- Finalize the application capture

- Assigned the application to client stations; tested the deployment by running Photoshop - it works once but then subsequent times it asks for a "login" to Adobe's site, indicating that the application is not properly licensed.

If anyone can point me to a solution, we would appreciate it.

Thanks!

Hi

I'm experimenting with an ESXi 6.5 installation on a Intel NUC6I5SYH for a lab enviroment. I'm aware of the "no official support", but please hear me out :-)

As stated, I'm installing ESXi on a Intel NUC which has a Intel 600p NVMe SSD installed. For the most part everything works fine, but in the last month I have experienced twice that the partitions on the SSD disappears from ESXi. A simple reboot of the device will bring everything back to normal, but during the time with no access to the content of the SSD, the VM's are (of cause) not responding.

I can, however, log on to the web-interface of ESXi 6.5 and from there I see that the SSD is still recognized (I can see the make and model of the SSD), but the capacity is "0 bytes". If I log on to the ESXi host via SSH and do a "df -h" I see two partitions: one which is around 4 GB and one which is 0 bytes. This makes me think, that the SSD is not totally dead,

Even though VMware is not supporting this setup, I wonder what my next troubleshooting step should be. Does the ESXi-installation have a CLI command to read out SMART-data or "rescan" the SSD for partitions? Something to guide me in a direction if I should RMA the SSD, the NUC or just give up on ESXi in this setup.

I don't really have any logs about the incident since ESXi doesn't have anywhere to write the logs to when this problem occurs.

Thanks!

Pretty self-explanatory, but I'll try my best to improve the question: since basically vCenter Server needs an OS to run and that's some version of Linux, VMware's Photon I believe, why not eliminate the hypervisor layer to have it get the most of its dedicated host    -- I just found the perfect vCenter for my scenario, an old Mac mini. I have two other dedicated hosts to only one VM and a big server with hundreds of gigs of ram where all the rest of the VMs live so I don't need to perform vMotions, I do need however, vCenter to interface with those features not available an ESXi host alone.

If I'm missing something please tell me, I'm virtually new to virtualizing -- heh--sorry, had to    -- I think it's the bes the best way. Besides, the processor on the Mac mini would force me to downgrade the EVC mode to the Penryn generation, it is that old, for my vCenter it's actually perfect, though.

I have set up ghettoVCB (Last modified: 2015_04_04_1) to backup a list of VMs on an ESXi 6.0 host, and scheduled the cron job, and this seems to work just fine.  The last step to confirming it's working well is to restore a backup, (and preferably now while it's not critical if it doesn't work, as opposed to AFTER someone breaks something and we find out the restore didn't work!)

So I've got a datastore named "datastore1" with the VMs, including a file server called "fs1".  I also have an NFS share mounted as datastore "vmbackup".  Not big on originality, but simple.  I created a file called "vms_to_restore" and placed it in the root of the "vmbackup" datastore.  I created a file called "vms_to_restore".  The contents of the file are this:

    "/vmfs/volumes/vmbackup/fs1/fs1-2017-12-15_01-00-01;/vmfs/volumes/datastore1;3;fs1-2"

I run the following command from SSH in ESXI:

    /opt/ghettovcb/bin/ghettoVCB-restore.sh –c /vmfs/volumes/vmbackup/vms_to_restore -d 1

And i get this response:

    ERROR: "" input file does not exists

I have so far read through the restore script and it looks like it's not seeing the file parameter.  I've tried deleting and recreating the file in the SSH shell.  I've double-checked all my paths, hit tab to watch them autocomplete so I know I didn't mistype something.  Can anyone point out what I'm obviously doing wrong?

Hello dear all,

We are trying to move 2TB of VMs from a nonVSAN node to a vSAN cluster.

We are trying to add a nonVSAN node with a fibre datastore attached to it to a 3node vSAN cluster, in order to SVmotion from the fibre to vSAN. The issue is that when we add the node to vSAN, a partition occurs in vSAN cluster, the vSAN gets in syncing mode, the vSAN datastore becomes 0.00TB in size and we cannot vMotion towards it. When we disconnect the nonVSAN server, everything is fixed. We have tried to add the nonVsan node to the same 3node cluster, to a new datacenter, to a new cluster and as a new host in the vCenter (different hierarchy options) without any luck...

All servers are running ESXI 6.0U3, VCSA 6.5.

Any information or idea regarding the issue would be highly appreciated,

Kind Regards

この度、Fujitsuサーバー（TX1310)へWindows10Pro：x64をインストールして、

WorkstationPro14をインストールします。

　そしてクライアントにWindows10Pro：x64を３台分

　　　　　　しめて４台のWindows10Pro:x64システムを構築しようと画策しております。

　当然、ライセンスは別に用意します。　

　マザーのCPUはXeon E3-12ｘｘに換装しメモリは３２ＧＢ用意します。

このような形態での注意点はありますでしょうか。

I am working to achieve following results.

• The UAG sits in DMZ and it is used as a reverse proxy for internal web application that is not directly visible from Internet - only through UAG reverse proxy
• While user connects from Internet to external address hosted by UAG, UAG before proxing user will ask IDM to authenticate user and if user authenticates himself UAG will proxy user to internal web application
• The internal application has its own authentication mechanism which is separate and not connected to IDM

I have read VMware Docs on (1, 2) as well as 3 threads in this forum dealing with UAG and IDM and still I am confused how to achieve the above.

Can anybody verify if it can be done with UAG/IDM pair and which steps should I take to accomlish this? Or advise if there is other, better way?

Just to clarify why I go that way: finally I want to have two factor auth provided by VMware Verify to access this internal app.

Thanks

Pawel

My VDI experience is very limited. Well, actually nonexistent. I didn't want to post in the Horizon board since this is for XenDesktop and it appears the vGPU is setup on the VM. I am looking to setup three physical servers using ESXi 6.5 as the hypervisor and XenDesktop for VDI. There are only going to be 30 VDIs and I was looking at the NVIDIA Grid K1 or K2. There are no CAD users or graphic designers. Goal is to have smooth video playback and web conferencing. All users will have two monitors.

For one, do you need to have multiple GPUs per server? We are a Supermicro shop, but I am guessing you can't just slap a GPU into any server. It looks like there are specific servers with GPU support.

Any information or recommendations to point me in the right direction would be appreciated.

I have tried to make a POST request as per the example ( https://pubs.vmware.com/vca/index.jsp#com.vmware.vcloud.api.doc_56/GUID-4759B018-86C2-4C91-8176-3EC73CD7122B.html ) to update multiple sections of the VM. But i always get error 415

I always get the below error even if i try to update atleast one section, like either "name and description" or just "network connection section"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Error xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5" majorErrorCode="415" message="Unsupported Media Type" minorErrorCode="UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5http://vcloud-url/api/v1.5/schema/master.xsd"></Error>

Is it possible to do "reconfigureVM" action request ? and if yes, could anyone help with updating vm name and network section

Note: I can do PUT request to update each section separately.

And yes the "test_vapp1-network" in Network Section in below XML which is the vapp network name does exist.

Here is my XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Vm xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"     name="test_vm_1">     <Description>A test VM</Description>    <NetworkConnectionSection          type="application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.networkConnectionSection+xml"        xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"        xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1">        <ovf:Info>Firewall allows access to this address.</ovf:Info>        <PrimaryNetworkConnectionIndex>0</PrimaryNetworkConnectionIndex>        <NetworkConnection            network="test_vapp1-network">            <NetworkConnectionIndex>0</NetworkConnectionIndex>            <IsConnected>true</IsConnected>            <IpAddressAllocationMode>POOL</IpAddressAllocationMode>        </NetworkConnection>    </NetworkConnectionSection>     <GuestCustomizationSection      xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/v1.5"      xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1"      ovf:required="false">      <ovf:Info>Specifies Guest OS Customization Settings</ovf:Info>      <Enabled>true</Enabled>      <ChangeSid>true</ChangeSid>      <VirtualMachineId>hddhdhdhd</VirtualMachineId>      <AdminPasswordEnabled>true</AdminPasswordEnabled>      <AdminPassword>test123456</AdminPassword>      <ResetPasswordRequired>false</ResetPasswordRequired>      <CustomizationScript />      <ComputerName>test_vm_1</ComputerName>    </GuestCustomizationSection></Vm>

When I run a VM in VMWare Player 14, it is only able to register the first left mouse click. After that i need to keep pressing Ctrl+Alt and then clicking twice to register a single left click before repeating it again to get another left click. I have tried adding vmmouse.present = "FALSE" to the vmx file but it does not help.

My guest OS is Windows Server 2012.

I am a noob to say the least and I have spent a few days trying to figure this out before coming to the community but I am at the point to where I think im just going to start all over again. I have the system at a good save point and want to take a snapshot but I cant. I experimented with snapshot when I fisrt started but I thought they were deleted. Again noob. I cant seem to find a topic relating to this particular error verbatim but found different answers for similar issues. Before I go and start changing file (of which I have no idea what they are doing) I thought I would see if anyone had any suggestions.

Edit: I see a couple dozen have vied trhis. Is it something so simple that its not worth you time or that im a stupid noob? or is there something im missing?

Edit: ok so cloning the disk and storing it in another location seem to have fixed this.

I have A fault has occurred causing a virtual CPU to enter the shutdown state when trying start OS in Vmware Pro 12. I try to fix failed in log file with VMware Knowledge Base  but It doesn't help me figure out. Can I have some help, please.

Test/LAB-Topology:

Airwatch in Cloud (version 9.2) with on premise VESC/ACC connecting to AD/LDAP in LAN .

On same LAN, a  vIDM SUSE 3.0 Appliance is installed and configured (in VMware Workstation).
Integration between Airwatch and vIDM is fully configured. For directory, compliance, password check, unified catalog.

Topology is very basic as it is a test setup. No (reverse) proxy is deployed.

Internet traffic is forwarded on the Firewall/Router to the vIDM for ports 443 and 5262 (Android).

For iOS SSO, KDC (Kerberos  key distribution center) is initialized on the IDM box, kerberos SRV (Service) records are registered both on the public DNS and on the internet Router.

For Android: the Tunnel root certificate is downloaded from Airwatch (settings/tunnel) and uploaded to vIDM  in the Mobile SSO (for Android) Auth method.

From the Airwatch console, an application configuration is pushed to  the WS1-App, holding the URL of the vIDM.

Difference in my setup is that the AW servers (console, device services server) are not in DMZ but in AW cloud

The issue is that Android SSO is failing:
The VPN tunnel between the device and IDM is opened for configured Apps (WS1 App, VMware browser) , but SSO is failing.
 

The received disconnect as shown in the cert-proxy log (below) happens within few seconds after starting the VMware tunnel App on the Android device.
On the device the connection (key icon) does not dissapear but remains in the taskbar.

User is presented the fallback authentication method on the device as configured in vIDM.  
IDM policies are checked and correctly configured.

Cert-proxy-log in vIDM, right after starting the per App VPN tunnel App on the Android device:

2017-12-06T13:55:29,554 DEBUG (LittleProxy-0-ClientToProxyWorker-7) [;;;] org.littleshoot.proxy.impl.ClientToProxyConnection - (AWAITING_INITIAL): Configuring ChannelPipeline

2017-12-06T13:55:29,557 DEBUG (LittleProxy-0-ClientToProxyWorker-7) [;;;] org.littleshoot.proxy.impl.ClientToProxyConnection - (AWAITING_INITIAL): Enabling encryption of traffic from client to proxy

2017-12-06T13:55:29,559 DEBUG (LittleProxy-0-ClientToProxyWorker-7) [;;;] com.vmware.horizon.utils.KeystoreUtilities - Loading BCFKS stream from BCFIPS

2017-12-06T13:55:29,605 DEBUG (LittleProxy-0-ClientToProxyWorker-7) [;;;] org.littleshoot.proxy.impl.ClientToProxyConnection - (AWAITING_INITIAL): Enabling encryption with SSLEngine: c35be7d[SSLEngine[hostname=null port=-1] SSL_NULL_WITH_NULL_NULL]

2017-12-06T13:55:29,605 DEBUG (LittleProxy-0-ClientToProxyWorker-7) [;;;] org.littleshoot.proxy.impl.ClientToProxyConnection - (AWAITING_INITIAL): Created ClientToProxyConnection

2017-12-06T13:55:29,607 DEBUG (LittleProxy-0-ClientToProxyWorker-7) [;;;] org.littleshoot.proxy.impl.ClientToProxyConnection - (AWAITING_INITIAL) [id: 0xa9a2252e, L:/192.168.1.105:5262 - R:/89.200.0.87:53892]: Connected

2017-12-06T13:55:29,608 DEBUG (LittleProxy-0-ClientToProxyWorker-7) [;;;] org.littleshoot.proxy.impl.ClientToProxyConnection - (DISCONNECTED) [id: 0xa9a2252e, L:/192.168.1.105:5262 ! R:/89.200.0.87:53892]: Disconnected

2017-12-06T13:55:29,608 DEBUG (LittleProxy-0-ClientToProxyWorker-7) [;;;] com.vmware.horizon.certproxy.ClientActivityTracker - Received disconnect from client: /89.200.0.87:53892

Firewall/Router network trace showing a [FIN, ACK] sent from Android device to the vIDM/certproxy on the LAN,at the same moment the certproxy log is showing  "received disconnect from client".

Hi all,

For context, my current Fusion VM has the following specs:

• Fusion 10 Professional Version 10.0.1 (6754183)
• MacOS High Sierra (10.13.1 current build)

My VM Microsoft Windows 10, for this update, is going from "Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1703 for x64-based Systems (KB4041676)" to "Version 1709".

It was about a ~2GB download/update.

After the VM restarted several times to update the MS Win10 OS (which to me means it was a big update), I found that my VM no longer allows me to write any type of file to the Fusion Mac Host. For example: my files are saved on the Mac OS desktop (for my own reasons) so the VM accesses those files like they normally did using the Shared Folders setting.  For the record, my VM always successfully wrote to the Fusion Mac Host.

So, example, when I open a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that is stored on the Host Mac desktop, I edit it, when I try to save it says something like "cannot save". When I try it with MS Word, the error is different in that it says something like "connection to the remote folder was lost, please check your network file share connection".

I haven't taken the time to "Uninstall" the update to see if it will revert back, I basically blow away the VM instance and restore from a backup VM running Version 1703.

Thoughts?

i am getting below error when i run any commands on PowerCLI /Powershell . Please help me how to resolve this issue .

Note: Internet is blocked in server.

Import-Module : Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk\1.0.0.5334677\log4net.dll' or one of its

dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)

Dear all

I just installed a SRM6.1 and the storage is Dell Compellent running Storage Center version 7.1. After I installed the SRA, and the pair can be discovered successfully, but some of them cannot match the local datastore, just like below

Then I checked the log in the SRM  and found the below, it said device "#" matches two different devices. Then I checked the NAA ID, the red one is the Protocol Endpoint presented by the Dell Compellent and the black one is the actual LUN.

2017-12-15T14:34:37.254+08:00 [03796 error 'DatastoreGroupManager' opID=4c35f1e8] Dr::Storage::Match::DeviceMatcher::DeviceMatcher: Device '5' matches two different devices 'naa.6000d310033f60010000000000000005' and 'naa.6000d310033f60000000000000000007'

2017-12-15T14:34:37.254+08:00 [03796 error 'DatastoreGroupManager' opID=4c35f1e8] Dr::Storage::Match::DeviceMatcher::DeviceMatcher: Device '6' matches two different devices 'naa.6000d310033f60010000000000000006' and 'naa.6000d310033f60000000000000000008'

2017-12-15T14:34:37.254+08:00 [03796 error 'DatastoreGroupManager' opID=4c35f1e8] Dr::Storage::Match::DeviceMatcher::DeviceMatcher: Device '8' matches two different devices 'naa.6000d310033f60010000000000000008' and 'naa.6000d310033f6000000000000000000a'

2017-12-15T14:34:37.254+08:00 [03796 error 'DatastoreGroupManager' opID=4c35f1e8] Dr::Storage::Match::DeviceMatcher::DeviceMatcher: Device '9' matches two different devices 'naa.6000d310033f60010000000000000009' and 'naa.6000d310033f6000000000000000000b'

2017-12-15T14:34:37.254+08:00 [03796 error 'DatastoreGroupManager' opID=4c35f1e8] Dr::Storage::Match::DeviceMatcher::DeviceMatcher: Device '10' matches two different devices 'naa.6000d310033f6001000000000000000a' and 'naa.6000d310033f6000000000000000000c'

2017-12-15T14:34:37.254+08:00 [03796 error 'DatastoreGroupManager' opID=4c35f1e8] Dr::Storage::Match::DeviceMatcher::DeviceMatcher: Device '12' matches two different devices 'naa.6000d310033f6001000000000000000c' and 'naa.6000d310033f6000000000000000000e'

2017-12-15T14:34:37.254+08:00 [03796 error 'DatastoreGroupManager' opID=4c35f1e8] Dr::Storage::Match::DeviceMatcher::DeviceMatcher: Device '13' matches two different devices 'naa.6000d310033f6001000000000000000d' and 'naa.6000d310033f6000000000000000000f'

2017-12-15T14:34:37.254+08:00 [03796 error 'DatastoreGroupManager' opID=4c35f1e8] Dr::Storage::Match::DeviceMatcher::DeviceMatcher: Device '14' matches two different devices 'naa.6000d310033f6001000000000000000e' and 'naa.6000d310033f60000000000000000010'

2017-12-15T14:34:37.254+08:00 [03796 error 'DatastoreGroupManager' opID=4c35f1e8] Dr::Storage::Match::DeviceMatcher::DeviceMatcher: Device '15' matches two different devices 'naa.6000d310033f6001000000000000000f' and 'naa.6000d310033f60000000000000000011'

2017-12-15T14:34:37.254+08:00 [03796 error 'DatastoreGroupManager' opID=4c35f1e8] Dr::Storage::Match::DeviceMatcher::DeviceMatcher: Device '16' matches two different devices 'naa.6000d310033f60010000000000000010' and 'naa.6000d310033f60000000000000000012'

So may I know any one here got the same experience? Why the vCenter/SRM think protocol endpoint are same as the protocol endpoint? And how to fix it? I checked Dell's manual seems we cannot disable the protocol endpoint in Storage.

Best regards

Alex Tsang

vROPs reports that there are reclaimable CPU, Memory and Disk Capacity in several clusters.

I know that Memory and CPU can be decreased provided that the VM is powered off. With downtime but doable.

The question is, how about the disks? how can it be decreased? Some are production VMs.

The admin wants to execute the recommendations provided by vROPs.

Hey Guys

i´ve just deployed an vRO7.3 and configured it to use sso. I´ve put the right sso vcenter, the admin creds, the admingroup accepted the certificate. Checked the validation, everything was green only reboot was missing. After rebooting the appliance i was able to Login to the vRO application with my AD credentials and was in the vRO. Thought perfect everything fine.

Then i went to the controlcenter and got this error:

HTTP Status 500 - Internal Processing Error

type Status report

messageInternal Processing Error

descriptionThe server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

Pivotal tc Runtime 3.1.5.RELEASE/8.0.36.A.RELEASE

In the browser adress bar i saw: https://myvcentersso.com/websso/SAML2/SSO/vsphere.local?SAMLRequest=zVRbb5swF ..................

I´ve got the same error several months ago and cannot remember exactly the Problem. I only now that i´ve deployed the appliance again did a snapshot, and configured the SSO again and again. At one Point i´ve changed anything during the sso configuration. Maybe the IP instead of FQDN??

Does anyone have an idea what to do???

Is it possible to reset the appliance without reinstalling? Maybe a SSO reset, so that i can connect again to the Control Center and configure again?

Dears, kindly we need to know the amount of the transferred data " send & received " between two vm server ?

ESXI 5.1

IBM Blade HX5

Error message: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to.

I upgraded to MacOS High Sierra and upgraded to VMware fusion 10.

Since then I can not open my existing VM's and I can not install any new VM's.

I followed this article and tried the three options that it suggests and I still have no luck. Each time I get the cannot find a... message.  VMware Knowledge Base

At this point, I am completely blocked with my work (I am a contractor) and if I do not get this fixed I will not be able to work at all.

Has anyone else experienced this? If so can you help me! I am desperate.

Thank you!!!