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Re: guest os ipaddress,subnet and gateway information

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Hi Luc ,

 

How do we put all this data in a excel or direct the output to a excel ?


Re: migration from VDS to VSS

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Hi,

 

Can you 'borrow' an uplink from your VDS (if you have redundant uplinks)? Think for 5.5 this would work - (in 6.0 you can change networks during vMotion but don't think this was in 5.5 difficult to remember sometimes :-) )

 

E.g. 1. on hosts 1 and 2 create a new VSS with VM port group matching your existing one on host 3 and 4.

 

2. On hosts 1 and 2 manage physical network adapters for VDS - remove one of redundant uplinks.

 

3. On hosts 1 and 2 manage physical network adapters for VSS and add freed up uplink.

 

4. Edit VM settings and change network to port group on VSS (while online)

 

5. vMotion VM to host 3 or 4.

 

Is the vMotion network the same between the clusters?

Why can't I connect to Web App? Logical Routing, Module 2, Introduction and Feature Tour

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Stuck in Module 2, logical routing, Lab: HOL-1703-SDC-1 - VMware NSX: Introduction and Feature Tour. When I open the tab, https://webapp.corp/local.cgi-bin/hol.cgi. I have refreshed, checked all my settings, and re-configured. I continue to see:

Unfortunately, Module 3 requires this be resolved. Thanks in advance for the assistance.

Intel NUC blue screens when running 2 vm's

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I have an Intel NUC5i5MYHE with vPro and 16 GB RAM, Samsung 850 Pro SSD that blues screens when I run 2 vm's. It's fine with one and I've tried this with just the vmware player 12.5.3 as well as the full install of workstation pro (I'm about a week into the trial). I'm into my 8th or 9th try to make this work over a period of about 8 months.

 

One vm is a linux-type .ova (officially shown as 'Other") that's a Sonicwall Analyzer 7.2 appliance from the vendor, which Workstation Pro 12.5.4 indicated was a v7-8 appliance needing 8 GB RAM (I set it to 10GB), and the other one is a Windows 7 Pro that needs 2GB and was a v10 vm. I've run the linux appliance for several months by itself so it's not a problem on its own.

 

The host can run both for between about 18 hours and 4-6 days before it blue screens. For my latest attempt at making this work I asked workstation pro to upgrade the linux appliance to v10 (I tried v12 but it doesn't work and Sonicwall indicates v10 as the newest supported VM version) and to upgrade the Windows Vm to the latest version. It ran both for about 3 1/2 days before crashing.

 

Before the latest attempt I upgrade to the latest (~2 weeks ago) BIOS, chipset, and drivers (a network driver update readme did refer to some fixes related virtualization so I was hoping maybe this was it...)

 

Has anyone used VMware 12 with a NUC? running more than one VM? Are there known issues in general or with running more than one VM?

 

Would Workstation Pro give me any advantage of the Player? I don't mind paying for Pro but does it buy me anything? I know I would get 30 days of support but would support even help with this?

WMWare workstation pro 15.5.4 seems to cause my Windows 7 laptop to freeze up

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I am running VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.4 build-5192485 on a Lenovo W541 laptop with Windows 7 Professional (Service pack 1) O/S.

I have 32 GB internal memory, with 24GB reserved for VMWare images. The images I run use no more than  16GB memory. Very often my laptop becomes so slow as to e non responsive. Usually this happens after the VMWare image had bee running for an hour or more.

has anyone any idea as to what the issue could be?  

Re: ESXi 5.5 host can be part of two VDS?

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According with vSphere configuration maximums, a host can have 16 distributed switches, so you may can remove a uplink from your current VDS, create a new temp VDS and add hosts from both clusters to that VDS. After both cluster have access to the same VDS, move the virtual machines to that VDS, then move the virtual machines to the different cluster, move back the virtual machines to the non-temp VDS... and after finish all migrations, delete the temp VDS and move back the uplink to the non-temp VDS.

Problem using existing disks

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I have tried and use some virtual hard drives from my previous setup that was just vmware player.

Now when I triy and use them in vSphere, I get this error message:

 

http://imgur.com/a/gIPLq

 

I have tried with several virtual hard drives and none of them is working.

I get the same error message. Is it a Esxi version that I specificly have to use?

Or do I have to reinstall everything?

 

Importing .ovi files is working at least.

Re: Swipe between Desktops Is not working

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Hi,

 

Sounds like you enabled "Unity" which allows you to use your Windows apps as if they are macOS apps.

 

Under the Fusion menu.

Go to View -> Change from "unity" to "full screen" and you should be back to the "Windows in another desktop" mode.

 

--

Wil


Fusion not working, windows cannot be activated, and unable to load any Windows programs on my MacBook Pro

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I have a few issues:

I have a MacBook Pro 2016

FIRST ISSUE:

I bought a copy of Windows 10 Pro, installed a Bpptcamp partition and the Windows 10 Pro and activated it. But that required me to either boot Windows or boot Mac, but I was unable to use both at the same time.

So I got a trial copy of VMware Fusion, installed it, pulled Bootcamp into it, installed VMware tools, restarted Windows, but although you say that this way, I do not have to reactivate Windows, Windows still insists that they cannot activate my copy of Windows 10 Pro, as it was installed on another machine. 

SECOND ISSUE:

I am completely unable to install any Windows applications. even though I have Windows 10 Pro running in Unity mode, every time I try to install a Windows program, it says I cannot do so on a Mac.

I was hoping that VMware Fusion would work well, but thus far, it is not working at all. it is completely useless in its present setting. Please help asap!

Re: For Each Loop and Set-VMNetworkAdapter

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Not sure if it's a copy paste error... but you are missing a '.' In you $var2

 

linevar2 Should be

 

line.var2

 

can you post an example of your csv?

Re: For Each Loop and Set-VMNetworkAdapter

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Try adding a -Confirm:$false on the Disconnect-ViServer cmdlet.

Re: guest os ipaddress,subnet and gateway information

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Add | Export-Csv report.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture to the end.

Don't forget the pipe symbol (vertical bar)

Re: Looking for a Power CLI query /script which will dump all the contents of a datastore as we get to see when we browse it .

Re: Unable to Obtain Hardware Information for the Selected Machine

Fusion 8.X updating error

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I getting the following error when I try to update the VMWare Fusion app to the latest version, I am using a Mac OS Sierra:

 

Here is what I found in the log:

 

2017-03-25T21:24:43.866-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: CdsUnpackJobUpdateFunc: Unpack job is complete

2017-03-25T21:24:43.867-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: Cds_SearchBulletins: Searching for product=fusion version=(latest) build=0

2017-03-25T21:24:43.868-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: DUI_CheckInstalledVersionOfCDSZip: File to check does not exist

2017-03-25T21:24:43.868-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: Cds_SearchBulletins: Searching for product=fusion version=(latest) build=0

2017-03-25T21:24:43.868-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: DUI_CheckInstalledVersionOfCDSZip: File to check does not exist

2017-03-25T21:24:43.868-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: Cds_SearchBulletins: Searching for product=fusion-mas version=(latest) build=0

2017-03-25T21:24:46.158-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: Found package handler for bulletin mime-type vmware/mac-zip

2017-03-25T21:24:46.158-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: CdsInstallProgress: Installing bulletin 1b8bc343-8963-4ef9-9347-ed631cb58290

2017-03-25T21:24:46.159-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: CdsInstallProgress: Install job still running

2017-03-25T21:24:50.548-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: CdsInstallProgress: Installing bulletin 1b8bc343-8963-4ef9-9347-ed631cb58290

2017-03-25T21:24:50.548-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: CdsInstallProgress: Install job still running

2017-03-25T21:24:50.548-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: DUI_ExecuteCDSZipInstall: Missing expected metadata information, abandoning install

2017-03-25T21:24:50.731-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: CdsInstallProgress: Installing bulletin 1b8bc343-8963-4ef9-9347-ed631cb58290

2017-03-25T21:24:50.731-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: CdsInstallProgress: Install for bulletin 1b8bc343-8963-4ef9-9347-ed631cb58290 returned installerStatus 3, exitCode 0

2017-03-25T21:24:50.993-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: Aborting bulletin 1b8bc343-8963-4ef9-9347-ed631cb58290

2017-03-25T21:24:50.993-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: Bulletin has no jobs and install abort failed with CDS_BULLETIN_NOT_DOWNLOADING_ERROR

2017-03-25T21:24:50.993-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: CDS: CdsInstallProgress: Install job failed

2017-03-25T21:25:14.287-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: SOCKET creating new socket, connecting to /var/run/vmware/usbarbitrator-socket

2017-03-25T21:25:14.287-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: SOCKET connect failed, error 2: No such file or directory

2017-03-25T21:27:14.280-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: SOCKET creating new socket, connecting to /var/run/vmware/usbarbitrator-socket

2017-03-25T21:27:14.281-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: SOCKET connect failed, error 2: No such file or directory

2017-03-25T21:29:14.275-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: SOCKET creating new socket, connecting to /var/run/vmware/usbarbitrator-socket

2017-03-25T21:29:14.275-05:00| VMware Fusion| I125: SOCKET connect failed, error 2: No such file or directory

 

Do you know how can I solve this error?

 

Thanks!


Re: Upgrade problem !!

ESXi 6.5 Slow vms, High "average response time"

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I am running esxi 6.5 with the latest patches and vmware tools 10.1.5

 

I am having very inconsistent performance issues with both of my hosts. Basically the windows 2016/windows 10 guests are sluggish at times. nothing will load and the os is basically unresponsive when interacting with the gui. The issue seems to be stemming from disk performance but I am not 100% certain that this is the cause, it may be a side affect.

 

What I have noticed is that some vms show a average response time for the disk of about 2000ms. Yet if i check the performance monitor at a host level the disk and datastores are all showing sub 1ms response time. I am not able to explain the inconsistencies there.

 

I have a local ssd datastore on each host as well as a rather fast nvme iscsi san that is connected via 100gb mellanox connectx4 cards. I see the issue with both hosts and both datastores. The issue seems to be worse now with the most recent patches and vmware tools drivers. I am using vmxnet3 network cards and paravirtual scsi controllers on all vms.

 

I have run disk benchmarks on the vms and the resutls vary. I have already seen it where i run a disk benchmark on a guest, get horrible results, vmotion it to the other host, and benchmarks to the san are fine, and then i vmotion the guest back to the original host and the results are fine the second time I run it.

 

 

 

here is an example of a bad test, the reads are terrible:

 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

CrystalDiskMark 5.2.0 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo

                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]

* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

 

 

   Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 2) :     0.655 MB/s

  Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 2) :  5384.173 MB/s

  Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 2) :     0.026 MB/s [     6.3 IOPS]

Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 2) :   617.822 MB/s [150835.4 IOPS]

         Sequential Read (T= 1) :     2.306 MB/s

        Sequential Write (T= 1) :  1907.004 MB/s

   Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :    53.942 MB/s [ 13169.4 IOPS]

  Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :    52.104 MB/s [ 12720.7 IOPS]

 

 

  Test : 50 MiB [C: 5.2% (15.6/299.5 GiB)] (x1)  [Interval=5 sec]

  Date : 2017/03/25 20:29:18

    OS : Windows 10 Enterprise [10.0 Build 14393] (x64)

 

a few seconds later on the same setup i get perfectly fine results:

 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

CrystalDiskMark 5.2.0 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo

                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]

* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

 

 

   Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 2) :  6655.386 MB/s

  Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 2) :  5654.851 MB/s

  Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 2) :   695.193 MB/s [169724.9 IOPS]

Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 2) :   609.216 MB/s [148734.4 IOPS]

         Sequential Read (T= 1) :  1810.393 MB/s

        Sequential Write (T= 1) :  1626.112 MB/s

   Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :    53.266 MB/s [ 13004.4 IOPS]

  Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) :    54.289 MB/s [ 13254.2 IOPS]

 

 

  Test : 50 MiB [C: 5.2% (15.7/299.5 GiB)] (x1)  [Interval=5 sec]

  Date : 2017/03/25 20:32:21

    OS : Windows 10 Enterprise [10.0 Build 14393] (x64)

Re: Free ESXi Backup Solution for Windows

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ESXi 6.5 VMs wont start

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Hello. Workstation 12.5.4. I have esxi6.5 and vCenter 6.5 all nested. When I go to run a VM within ESXi (even vCenter), it wont power on, hanging at some random point with an error in the events "Running VMware ESX in a virtual machine will result in degraded performance. Do you want to continue?". Obviously no way of answering this (I believe in 6.0 and earlier you could use the C# client but that's not there anymore in 6.5).

 

It was working for me real nice (I think until the update, or it may have been esxi 6.5). Any ideas?

 

Thanks

SSL VPN Plus - vCloud Director 8.20 / NSX 6.2.5

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Hello

I am working with vCloud director 8.20 and trying to configure  SSL VPN-Plus feature as explained in VMware Tenant Portal guide. Tenant portal guide explain  multi step configuration

Setup: vCD: 8.20, vSphere: 6.0 U2, NSX: 6.2.5

http://pubs.vmware.com/vcd-820/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vcd_820_tenantportal.pdf

 

Configure SSL VPN Server Settings

Procedure

1 In the tenant portal, on the SSL VPN-Plus screen, click Server Settings.

2 Select an IPv4 address.

3 (Optional) Type a TCP port number.

This TCP port number is used by the SSL client installation package. By default, the system uses port

443, which is the default port for HTTPS/SSL traffic. Even though port number is required you can set

any TCP port for communications.

Note The SSL VPN client requires the IP address and port configured here to be reachable from your

remote users' client systems. If you change the port number from the default, ensure the IP address and

port combination will be reachable from your intended users' systems.

4 Select an encryption method in the cipher list.

5 Configure the service's syslog logging policy.

Logging is enabled by default. You can change the level of messages to log or disable logging.

6 (Optional) If you want to use a service certificate instead of the system-generated self-signed certificate

that the system uses by default, click CHANGE SERVER CERTIFICATE, make your selection, and click OK.

7 Click Save changes.

 

ISSUE 1: When I complete Server settings and try to save it. I get message as shown below. Now question is:

As per Information provided in tenant portal guide I should be able to save the setting but I cant. Is this a Normal Behavior?

 

As part of resolution of shown message, I discard changes (as I don’t have any other option) to move to authentication tab and get below shown message 

I created local authserver with default setting

 

ISSUE 2: When I tried to edit setting of authserver to change password policy I get below error message. Its surprising that I cant edit setting after auth server creation. Is this again a normal behaviour?

Below error can be seen on NSX Edge


ISSUE 3: I left authserver with default setting with no choice and tried creating a new user. I got below error message.  So far I am not able to configure SSL VPN- Plus feature using steps given in Tenant portal guide

Just to see if I can create a new user directly from NSX manager but I could not and got below error message

For me it seems a abnormal behaviour as i tried following documentation but i could not configure SSL VPN feature. I hope someone from VMware take a look at the sequence of steps explained in guide and issues i encountered while following it with component version provided above. Anyone encountered these problems?

 

Workaround I found:

I have one more VSE deployed in one of my Org vDC and for this vDC I didn’t do any other configuration for SSL VPN Plus. First step I did was to create a user and this time I didn’t encounter error. I can see a new local authserver got created and none of the setting for Authserver was found to be enabled

 

I tried editing auth server setting and I was able to modify setting without any error message

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