hello,

     I am new to using vRO and I was looking for a video or document on how to setup loops within the tool.  I have used other orchestrator tools and there has always been a loop icon that could be dragged onto the canvas.

Thanks

VMWare announced the End of Availability (EOA) of VMware Data Protection (2149614).

This is quite disappointing, as many customers might have opted for using VDP after the announcement that VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced became part of VMware vSphere (and did no longer require purchase of a separate license):

"Starting March 1, 2015, VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced will be consolidated into VMware vSphere Data Protection ... All functionality available with vSphere Data Protection Advanced, previously available as a standalone product, is now included in VMware vSphere Data Protection 6.0."

If I understand it correctly, customers that are using VDP now need to change their backup policies and again need to purchase from VMWare:

"Beginning today, Dell EMC is offering you a complimentary migration to the more robust and scalable Dell EMC Avamar Virtual Edition."

Comments welcome!

Tom

In this paper, we cover the basic concepts of reservation and shares in a DRS cluster with resource pools, and explore the implications of setting reservations and shares for a VM and for a resource pool.

Boa tarde,

Pessoal, preciso de ajuda com meu Virtual Machine Console, ou seja, o console das MVs estão cortadas, não consigo visualizar a tela inteira das mvs,

no caso da imagen numa instalação do CentOS não consigo prosseguir e sair dessa pagina, pois a imagem corta no lado direito e abaixo.

o que faço para ajustar ou fazer o vmware detectar a imagem completa.

I not sure what happen because i have done this done this update process on other machines.  The raid controller's firmware can only be updated in a widows environment.  So, I loaded windows and made the firmware update from a drive that is attached to the onboard SATA.  The drive was remove and loaded esxi 6.5 and both local datastores where missing.

The raid controller's web interface show that the disk volumes were there and unaffected by the update.

esxcfg-scsidevs -c    was showing the raid volumes also

I then ran the following command which shows the vmfs filesystem:

voma -m vmfs -f check -d /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.60026b903ecf8900207acd6e23602932

Checking if device is actively used by other hosts          

Running VMFS Checker version 2.1 in check mode              

Initializing LVM metadata, Basic Checks will be done        

Phase 1: Checking VMFS header and resource files            

   Detected VMFS-6 file system (labeled:'210.ST.Raid-10') with UUID:58e81197-05964348-4e6f-0022192af848, Version 6:81

Phase 2: Checking VMFS heartbeat region                     

Phase 3: Checking all file descriptors.                     

Phase 4: Checking pathname and connectivity.                

Phase 5: Checking resource reference counts.                

Total Errors Found:           0

But when i ran the following command the filesystem was showing vfat :

esxcli storage filesystem list

Is there a way to fix the filesystem back to vmfs without losing the data or do i need to contact a data recovery company ?

Host: SLES 12 SP 2

Guest: SLES 11 SP 1

VMware Wkstn Ver: 12.5.5 build-5234757

vmtoolsd Ver: 10.1.6.4793 (build 4214329)

Host display has resolution 1280x1024. Xrandr shows the selected resolution to be 1152 x864, and the largest available resolution is 1176x885.

Is there any resolution to this issue?

When using the webclient, we've noticed a difference when deploying a vApp OVA on 6.0 vs 6.5. 

When deploying on 6.0, Step 1b. is 'Review details', and step 2a. is 'Select name and folder'.  When selecting name and folder, the default string in the name field appears to come from the <Product> in the <ProductSection> of the template. 

When deploying on 6.5, step 2. is 'Select name and location', and step 4. is 'Review details'.  When selecting name and folder, the default string in the name field appears to be come from the filename of the OVA, rather than the <Product> in the <ProductSection> of the template.

I'm assuming that in 6.5, the filename is used since the <Product> is not known until step 4.

This is very minor, but we've had comments on this difference and we are looking for a way to fix it, aside from trying to tweak the ova filename.

Is this a plausible explanation and is there any way to fix it so both 6.0 and 6.5 behave the same with respect to the displayed default vApp name?

Thanks!

I'm trying to determine how Guest Introspection behaves to try and address some rather critical issues in our environment. We are running NSX 6.2.3 with a single NSX Manager and 3x controller nodes. Currently we are only using the Firewall portion of NSX along with a few Edge DHCP nodes. We decided against using fat clients on each VM for Antivirus protection and instead are using an NSX supported AV (Trend in our case) which means each of our clusters has Guest Introspection service deployed as well as the Trend service deployed from the Service Deployments NSX Manager screen.

My understanding on just the guest introspection piece is that the NSX Manager VM itself deploys the guest introspection vmdk to each host and and then the controllers take over what it reports into. This means that if the NSX Manager is rebooted or something happens to it, our VMs are still protected as this manager is not needed for guest introspection (or trend for that matter) to operate.

- Is that the correct understanding of how that works?

Now here is our issue. NSX Manager has been rebooted in the past while not causing any issues on any service deployments or NSX componment errors. Everything appears to work correctly during the reboot. However, our NSX Manager VM ran out of disk space and a ton of VMs stopped working. They were up and running but lost network connectivity and had to be restarted. We were able to replicate this and confirm this was related which is very worrysome. This tells me that NSX Manager can reboot but that hosts appear to be reporting into it perhaps due to some validation. The concern here is that if something happens with NSX Manager like this then that is a single point of failure for our environment.

Any feedback is much appreciated!

I'm trying to capture videos within VMware using Adobe Captivate 9 and while I'm able to successfully capture a movie and save it once, I am not able to retrieve it at a later time. For example, the movie is saved to a folder that I can access while logged into the VMware environment, I can see the file, but cannot get it to import into my Adobe Captivate project. Has anyone had success in doing this? Thanks.  Lorraine

Hello,

Cannot upgrade VCSA 6.0 to VCSA 6.5

always on stage 2 i get this error:

Error

Internal error occurs during Export of vSphere ESX Agent Manager.

Resolution

Send upgrade log files to VMware technical support team for further assistance.

i found article https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2147898, but this article applied only to vCenter Server 6.0 installed on Windows

Sometime in the last week and a half my Chrome browser updated to 57.0.2987.110. Since then the option to login to the web GUI for vCenter server with Windows Session Credentials is grayed out.

I attempted to uninstall and reinstall the Client Integration Plugin with no luck.

When I go to help > about in the web GUI it shows the version of the plugin as 6.0.0 Build 4275819, which is correct with our current version of vSphere.

Is anyone else seeing this issue or have an idea of how to resolve it? I realize it's a minor annoyance, but it's a nice convenience to have.

Thanks,

Chris

I recently upgraded both my Mac OS to 10.12.4 and Vmware Fusion to 8.5.6.  Since those upgrades I am now seeing strange background issues in Microsoft Outlook and Skype for Business (see the attached screenshot).  The background of the application will at times turn black.  I'm running windows 7 professional as my VM.  Anyone else had an issue like this and know how to resolve them? 

In the documentation it says you should remove server authentication when you create a CA template.  However, our security department says this would be insecure.  Can server authentication remain in the Application Policies on the template?  Why would this need to be removed?

Creating a Microsoft Certificate Authority Template for SSL certificate creation in vSphere 6.0 - VMware vSphere Blog

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this odd situation:  We are running View 5.2.0 agent with Windows 7 x64 on a 5.3 server and use Wyse P24/45 zero clients for the users desk.  Each desk has (so far) two monitors.  Everything is fine, however in some situations when a user locks their workstation to walk away, it will lock but still display a static image on the secondary monitor of whatever was open there at the time of lock.  So for instance, if a user had cnn.com open on the right (secondary) monitor when they lock, that page is still visible, while on the left (primary) monitor the standard

CTRL-ALT-DEL screen is shown.  The page (or whatever is still visible) is in no way interactive, and since the image is static, even if the page auto-refreshes you will only ever see the content as it appeared when the machine was locked.  When the user unlocks, both screens go black as they normally do and then display current content.

Has anyone else seen anything like this?  It's not the biggest of deals, however it would be a security concern if a user left a sensitive document up on their secondary monitor, and locked their workstation to walk away.

This is from a previous post that has gone stale, but the wording of it fits my exact issue. I have changed the specs to fit my situation:

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this odd situation:  We are running View 6.2.2.3508800 agent with Windows 7 x64 on a 5.5 server and use Dell Wyse D10DP zero clients for the users desk.  Each desk has (so far) two monitors.  Everything is fine, however in some situations when a user locks their workstation to walk away, it will lock but still display a static image on the secondary monitor of whatever was open there at the time of lock.  So for instance, if a user had email open on the right (secondary) monitor when they lock, that page is still visible, while on the left (primary) monitor the standard

CTRL-ALT-DEL screen is shown.  The page (or whatever is still visible) is in no way interactive, and since the image is static, even if the page auto-refreshes you will only ever see the content as it appeared when the machine was locked.  When the user unlocks, both screens go black as they normally do and then display current content.

Has anyone else seen anything like this?  It's not the biggest of deals, however it would be a security concern if a user left a sensitive document up on their secondary monitor, and locked their workstation to walk away.

It seems to be sporadic, to reproduce it has been hard at best.

Good afternoon, 

I am hoping someone here can help me out.  I am an elearning developer, and I am responsible for making software simulations utilizing the Adobe Captivate product, which is installed directly on my computer.  The software I am attempting to make simulations of is accessed through a VMWare Horizon client.  The problem I am encountering is that Captivate is not catching all of the screen captures that it should, including it fails to capture keystrokes when I type in fields to identify resources.  When I work in any other program NOT accessed through the VMWare client, I have absolutely no trouble.  This leads me to believe it is something on the VMWare side that is causing the issue.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve this?

Thank you in advance for your assistance,

Joshua

jeez, where do I start!

I was 'cleaning' my system and in a dumb moment deleted something that VMware needs to operate . . . *stu shakes head at his incompetence*

I rang VMWare and was told my Fusion 3 doesn't work with my OS X operating system (10.9.5) and i'll have to upgrade . . . what tosh, it was all working fine until I cocked up, so i'm hoping this forum can help me please . . . I'm wanting to re-install the Fusion 3 that i purchased years ago, it worked fine, don't need to pay to upgrade etc . . . disc lost years ago annoyingly, but do still have the original box!! wIth documents etc, i'll try and get the key from vmware by ringing customer services or logging into my account . . .

Thanks in advance . . .

I have read quite a few blogposts about configuration of ESXi uplinks. Many experts prefer LBT over LACP.

I am looking for some good arguments to use LBT over LACP in the following configuration :

- about 60 ESXi 6.5 hosts all with 4 x 10 GbE network adapters.

-Netapp NFS storage

-distributed switches

-single tenancy, all management done by same group of IT-admins

-no need for a single VM to consume over 10 Gb of bandwidth

-redundancy of network uplink required

-network traffic: VM lan, vMotion, HA, ESXI management, NFS datastores, iSCSI from guest OS

-keep it simple

I am wondering how well LBT is able to detect a link failure, cable error?

What about using host profiles and LACP. Works well?

What would be your preferred configuration?

One dvSwitch for all 4 nics, or 2 dvSwitches each having 2 nics? LACP or LBT?

Thanks for your help!

I have entered my license key to license vCenter Server. After doing so I got an EULA licensing error that said I needed to license at least one asset. I went in to the hosts and clusters and figured I would just assign a license to a host, but I am getting an error there also. I get "Cannot add the following license keys. Existing Licenses: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fix or remove these license keys to proceed." Thank you for any help.

Hi,

After running vCenter 6.5 for around 2 months, I suddenly stopped being able to connect via the web client to it. I tried restarting services, even the entire appliance with no luck. Any help pointing out the issue would be appreciated. I already found another discussion on these forums with the exact same issue that nobody answered so the solution was to move back to 6.0. https://communities.vmware.com/message/2635193

The web interface shows this error:

503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x00007fb0a0004530] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe)

In the vsphere_client_virgo.log I found the following errors:

[2017-02-03T09:52:32.471Z] [INFO ] CEIPSynchronizerTimer         com.vmware.vise.vim.security.sso.impl.SsoCmLocatorImpl            Fetching SSO endpoints from CM

[2017-02-03T09:52:32.705Z] [INFO ] CEIPSynchronizerTimer         com.vmware.vise.vim.security.sso.impl.SsoCmLocatorImpl            Retrieved locations of services from CM at https://PRG-LAB-VC01.praguelab.internal/cm/sdk?hostid=f68a7a75-4694-4ec9-bd57-0f2af1cd9746 in 249 milliseconds:

adminAppUrl: https://PRG-LAB-VC01.praguelab.internal/sso-adminserver/sdk/praguelabsso.internal, stsUrl: https://PRG-LAB-VC01.praguelab.internal/sts/STSService/praguelabsso.internal, metadataUrl: https://PRG-LAB-VC01.praguelab.internal/websso/SAML2/Metadata/praguelabsso.internal, vmodlVersion: interface com.vmware.vim.binding.sso.version.version3_5

[2017-02-03T09:52:32.917Z] [INFO ] CEIPSynchronizerTimer         com.vmware.vim.sso.client.impl.SiteAffinityServiceDiscovery       Site affinity is disabled

[2017-02-03T09:52:33.118Z] [INFO ] CEIPSynchronizerTimer         com.vmware.identity.token.impl.SamlTokenImpl                      SAML token for SubjectNameId [value=vpxd-extension-f68a7a75-4694-4ec9-bd57-0f2af1cd9746@praguelabsso.internal, format=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/claims/UPN] successfully parsed from Element

[2017-02-03T09:52:33.124Z] [INFO ] CEIPSynchronizerTimer         com.vmware.vim.sso.client.impl.SecurityTokenServiceImpl           Successfully acquired token for user: {Name: vpxd-extension-f68a7a75-4694-4ec9-bd57-0f2af1cd9746, Domain: praguelabsso.internal}

[2017-02-03T09:52:33.224Z] [INFO ] CEIPSynchronizerTimer         com.vmware.vise.vim.commons.vcservice.impl.VcServiceImpl          Initializing vmomi for vc - https://PRG-LAB-VC01.praguelab.internal:443/sdk at VMODL version com.vmware.vim.binding.vim.version.internal.version11

[2017-02-03T09:52:33.288Z] [ERROR] CEIPSynchronizerTimer         com.vmware.ph.ceip.authentication.DsSessionSimulatorImpl          Exception occured while locating TargetVCService. As a result session cannot be simulated, since there is no VC to work with. For more details see the underlying exception: Unexpected status code: 503 com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.UnexpectedStatusCodeException: Unexpected status code: 503

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.Response$Status.getStatus(Response.java:58)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpExchangeBase.parseResponse(HttpExchangeBase.java:150)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpExchange.run(HttpExchange.java:48)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpProtocolBindingBase.executeRunnable(HttpProtocolBindingBase.java:226)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpProtocolBindingImpl.send(HttpProtocolBindingImpl.java:110)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl$CallExecutor.sendCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:581)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl$CallExecutor.executeCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:562)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.completeCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:344)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.invokeOperation(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:304)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.invoke(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:178)

        at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy615.retrieveContent(Unknown Source)

        at com.vmware.vise.vim.commons.vcservice.impl.VcServiceImpl.initializeVmomi(VcServiceImpl.java:1429)

        at com.vmware.vise.vim.commons.vcservice.impl.VcServiceImpl.<init>(VcServiceImpl.java:322)

        at com.vmware.vise.vim.commons.vcservice.impl.LinkedVcGroupImpl.createVcService(LinkedVcGroupImpl.java:554)

        at com.vmware.vise.vim.commons.vcservice.impl.LinkedVcGroupImpl.<init>(LinkedVcGroupImpl.java:187)

        at com.vmware.vise.vim.commons.vcservice.impl.LinkedVcGroupImpl.<init>(LinkedVcGroupImpl.java:150)

        at com.vmware.vise.vim.commons.vcservice.impl.LinkedVcGroupImpl.<init>(LinkedVcGroupImpl.java:125)

        at com.vmware.ph.ceip.authentication.DsSessionSimulatorImpl$VcGroupsRegistryProvider$LinkedVcGroupFactory.create(DsSessionSimulatorImpl.java:627)

        at com.vmware.ph.ceip.authentication.DsSessionSimulatorImpl$VcGroupsRegistryProvider.getLinkedVcGroupRegistry(DsSessionSimulatorImpl.java:362)

        at com.vmware.ph.ceip.authentication.DsSessionSimulatorImpl.simulate(DsSessionSimulatorImpl.java:118)

        at com.vmware.ph.ceip.impl.Synchronizer$1.run(Synchronizer.java:71)

        at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:555)

        at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:505)

[2017-02-03T09:52:33.290Z] [ERROR] CEIPSynchronizerTimer         com.vmware.ph.ceip.impl.Synchronizer                              Global consent status synchronizer has stopped unexpectedly. As a result the local consent state will not be synchronized with other consent states. To recover please verify/fix the exact reason in the cause exception and restart the service com.vmware.ph.ceip.authentication.DsSessionSimulatorImpl$ServiceInitializationException: Exception occured while locating TargetVCService. As a result session cannot be simulated, since there is no VC to work with. For more details see the underlying exception: Unexpected status code: 503

        at com.vmware.ph.ceip.authentication.DsSessionSimulatorImpl$VcGroupsRegistryProvider.getLinkedVcGroupRegistry(DsSessionSimulatorImpl.java:378)

        at com.vmware.ph.ceip.authentication.DsSessionSimulatorImpl.simulate(DsSessionSimulatorImpl.java:118)

        at com.vmware.ph.ceip.impl.Synchronizer$1.run(Synchronizer.java:71)

        at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:555)

        at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:505)

Caused by: com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.UnexpectedStatusCodeException: Unexpected status code: 503

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.Response$Status.getStatus(Response.java:58)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpExchangeBase.parseResponse(HttpExchangeBase.java:150)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpExchange.run(HttpExchange.java:48)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpProtocolBindingBase.executeRunnable(HttpProtocolBindingBase.java:226)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.http.impl.HttpProtocolBindingImpl.send(HttpProtocolBindingImpl.java:110)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl$CallExecutor.sendCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:581)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl$CallExecutor.executeCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:562)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.completeCall(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:344)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.invokeOperation(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:304)

        at com.vmware.vim.vmomi.client.common.impl.MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.invoke(MethodInvocationHandlerImpl.java:178)

        at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy615.retrieveContent(Unknown Source)

        at com.vmware.vise.vim.commons.vcservice.impl.VcServiceImpl.initializeVmomi(VcServiceImpl.java:1429)

        at com.vmware.vise.vim.commons.vcservice.impl.VcServiceImpl.<init>(VcServiceImpl.java:322)

        at com.vmware.vise.vim.commons.vcservice.impl.LinkedVcGroupImpl.createVcService(LinkedVcGroupImpl.java:554)

        at com.vmware.vise.vim.commons.vcservice.impl.LinkedVcGroupImpl.<init>(LinkedVcGroupImpl.java:187)

        at com.vmware.vise.vim.commons.vcservice.impl.LinkedVcGroupImpl.<init>(LinkedVcGroupImpl.java:150)

        at com.vmware.vise.vim.commons.vcservice.impl.LinkedVcGroupImpl.<init>(LinkedVcGroupImpl.java:125)

        at com.vmware.ph.ceip.authentication.DsSessionSimulatorImpl$VcGroupsRegistryProvider$LinkedVcGroupFactory.create(DsSessionSimulatorImpl.java:627)

        at com.vmware.ph.ceip.authentication.DsSessionSimulatorImpl$VcGroupsRegistryProvider.getLinkedVcGroupRegistry(DsSessionSimulatorImpl.java:362)

        ... 4 common frames omitted